Donald Trump's second term is only a few weeks old, and the mainstream media is already displaying a glaring double-standard when it comes to Trump's actions versus his predecessor, Joe Biden. The first example was in the reaction to Trump's proposed tariffs. Now, the media is all but admitting to a double standard when it comes to Trump's executive orders versus Biden's.
The admission came in a recent "PBS NewsHour" segment that included Jonathan Capehart, associate editor at the Washington Post and MSNBC host. Capehart openly defended the media's hostile reaction to Trump's executive actions cutting government waste, even as the show's co-host questioned Biden's similar executive actions on student loans. "Donald Trump is destroying," said Capehart. "President Biden pushed the limits of executive action, but to the benefit of people who were drowning in student debt. He did it to help people, not to destroy the federal government that the American people depend on for a whole host of things."
In other words, Biden's orders were for good but Trump's are for evil.
Even CNN was called out by one of its own analysts over the hypocrisy on Biden's executive orders versus Trump's. GOP strategist and CNN contributor Brian Todd told a network panel that Trump's actions are not worthy of the hair-on-fire response from most of the mainstream media. "Presidents advancing executive policy to get to the Supreme Court and test the limits is as old as the presidency," said Todd.
When another panel member shot back that the difference is Trump may be "laying the groundwork to disobey future court rulings," Todd wasn't having it.
"When Joe Biden said 'I will stop at nothing' when he lost the student loan case, CNN didn't say I wonder if he's laying the groundwork to defy the court," Todd replied. "We treat Republican presidents differently than we treat Democrat presidents in this conversation."
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