What if one of what the new White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, calls “legacy” reporters, meaning from the presumably fake news crowd, were to put her on the defensive in the White House Press Room by asking what about the two Trump plane crashes. After all, there had been no major air accidents in the United States for many years and then two happened during the second week of Trump’s second term. Couldn’t they be related? What’s up? That would be no more foolish than both the President and the Press Secretary saying at the podium that the first crash was the result of DEI even though no pilot of either the commercial plane or the helicopter has been publicly identified as a black, a female or a dwarf. Race was introduced only because the two speakers cared to do so, pursuing the idea that a minority must have done that. Such an attribution is clearly racist because it cites a deficient minority member for no reason even though such a minority pilot might have been perfectly competent, as years ago Eleanor Roosevelt attested when she insisted that a black pilot from the Tuskegee airmen be the one who flew her around an airfield.
Moreover, what if that legacy reporter then left the White House Press Room, saying I don’t have to legitimate such remarks. After all, the White House Press Conference is a two way street, the press gathering since there was a gaggle of reporters who stood around FDR”s desk asking him questions and he provided his own cagey answers and there has never been a time from then to now when the press was assaulted by racist remarks until that recent exchange. The Washington press corps can look for other sources of information than the mostly trivial handouts provided to them, such as oncoming events, and so don’t have to stand with that. No legacy reporter comes and that ruins Leavitt’s party, leaving the place to Trump acolytes, not worthwhile covering on the networks.