Time For The Bizarre In The Anti-Trump World

We've reached a new low in the media war on President Trump.  This time the subject is South Africa.  In the last year, there have been persistent reports of white farmers in that country being thrown off their land by black government officials or black mobs.  There have also been many reports of white farmers being murdered in order to get them off their land.  Fights over land ownership is one thing, but murders of farmers is a completely different subject.  President Trump tweeted in the last day that he has asked the State Department to look into these alleged murders.  That's all; the President wants the State Department to get more information about what's happening in South Africa in this regard.  It sounds like a prudent and appropriate step for the federal government to take.  America needs full information before it decides if any policy step is appropriate.

Of course, getting the facts before acting is only prudent and appropriate if you are someone other than President Trump, at least that's what the mainstream media thinks.  The President is being criticized for stoking racial tensions in South Africa and for inserting the USA in a purely domestic South African situation.  Really?  Are they kidding?  Learning the truth isn't stoking racial tensions.  Finding out if a country to whom we give aid is murdering one group of its citizens is hardly just a domestic question for South Africa.  But, if you are the media, the only rule is this:  "No matter what Trump does, it's bad and wrong."

Personally, I'm tired of all the media nonsense.