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American media culture enables corruption with sanitized language
The Problem Is Not Trump’s Vulgarity. It Is the Machinery That Keeps Normalizing It.Power Is the StoryA right-wing Italian newspaper did what much of the American press still refuses to do: it looked at Donald Trump’s behavior and named it as contemptible. The immediate trigger was petty and revealing enough. Trump invented a humiliating lie about Giorgia Meloni “begging” him for a photograph, and Meloni’s government answered with public anger. But the insult matters less than the structure behind it: a president who can fabricate nonsense about a foreign leader, then expect the story to be…
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