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Terry Prone: Stop mocking Trump’s supporters and start focusing on what he does

Even after nearly a decade of full-on Donald Trump, media commentators rolling their eyes at his antics still don’t get it
Terry Prone: Stop mocking Trump’s supporters and start focusing on what he does

The media was delighted with Donald Trump’s arraignment mugshot when they should have been focusing on how he maintains a grip on a large swather of voters in the US. Picture: Fulton County Sheriff’s Office/AP

The decent upright liberal moral people in international media didn’t miss their opportunity this weekend. Golden, that opportunity afforded to commentators who believe Donald Trump is a blot on every escutcheon. 

That opportunity presented by him turning up at Fulton County Jail to be fingerprinted and charged. Also photographed in a glower he opined made him look like Churchill. Which it definitely did not. But anyway, who wants to look like Churchill? You might want to write like Churchill or even sound like him, but look like him? Really?

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