What the New York Times Doesn’t Get
on January 23, 2017
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The New York Times editorial board entitled their traditional post-inaugural address commentary, "What President Trump Doesn't Get About America." What it reveals, however, is quite different. While one can reasonably expect an op-ed to lean in a particular direction and address policy differences, the editorial board's main criticism of President Trump's inauguration speech is centered on his, to their minds, unflattering portrait of America.
Seemingly still reeling from "their" loss in November, the board focuses on the parts of Trump's speech that Obama could have easily read in his own first inauguration. Former president Obama's 2009 inaugural address, however, was met with gushing enthusiasm for his unflattering portrait of America as "in decline" and "in crisis."




