Annals of Sanewashing: NYT Labels Trump's Confession of Psychological Unfitness as Leadership

Annals of Sanewashing: NYT Labels Trump's Confession of Psychological Unfitness as Leadership

Remember the term “sanewashing,” which Parker Malloy used to describe how the press minimizes Trump’s ramblings to describe them as something reasonable to people who don’t see them personally? Four years ago, in an article for Media Matters for America, I warned that journalists were sanitizing Donald Trump’s incoherent ramblings to make them more palatable for the average voter. The general practice went like this: The press would take somethi…