Remember when the New York Times led the mainstream media pack in painting Donald Trump as hopelessly compromised as a tool of Russian intelligence? Good times, good times. Today, Trump threatened to levy massive sanctions against Vladimir Putin’s regime if he didn’t get serious about ending the war in Ukraine, and … this was the only headline on the front page about it as of 2:45 pm ET (the black oval):
If you squint really hard, you’ll see this as an update on their live blog. In between the main headline over Elon Musk’s criticism of Trump’s AI deal and the revocation of LBJ’s executive order on affirmative action, you get this headline: “Trump pushes Putin to end war in Ukraine, threatening Russia with tariffs and sanctions.“
Seems newsy, no? Threatening Russia with punishing tariffs over a war with an American ally? Even if readers can barely find it,…
