Kudos to mainstream media for four years of respectfully doing no more than acknowledge the existence of Barron Trump. As it should be, the youngest child of the president, 10 years old when his father was inaugurated and just 14 now, was off limits to responsible media members. The question of his personality or emotional issues if any, is moot. Private. Personal. Goodness knows, it seems his mother has tried to distance him from his father as much as possible, for obvious reasons.
Why even mention this? Because Fox News who, predictably, also had a very much "hands off" take on Barron Trump, apparently had many fewer scruples when it came to the Obama daughters, barely older than Barron Trump. When she was just 14, Fox News host Andrea Tantaros called into question Malia Obama’s sex life after Obama stated he supported providing Plan B to girls as young as 15 in cases of rape. “Are they gonna put her on birth control?” Tantaros questioned. “Because he’s very concerned with contraceptives and pharmaceuticals that are going in the mouths of everybody else’s 15-year-old daughter.”
Other Right leaning media outlets also failed to respect what had been previously sacrosanct turf - first families’ younger children. After Thanksgiving in 2014, Elizabeth Lauten, a former communications director for State Rep. Stephen Lee Fincher (R.Tenn.), bashed Malia Obama and younger sister Sasha Obama, who were 16 and 13 at the time, for their outfits and facial expressions at the annual turkey pardoning. Malia Obama has faced backlash from the media since her father first took office. At just 11 years old, she was called “a typical street whore” and “ghetto street trash” after wearing a shirt with a peace sign on it.
In truth, it hasn’t been just the Obamas who have been victimized by Right Wing media. The loathsome Rush Limbaugh called Chelsea Clinton “a dog” when she was just 12 years old and described Amy Carter as “the most unattractive presidential daughter in the history of this country.”
With the Obamas, race was added to the mix in the vilest of manners. Mad World News posted an article about the girls around Thanksgiving 2014 as well. “I don’t think you would have ever seen the Bush daughters in dresses that short,” the article wrote. “Class is completely absent from this White House.”
Oddly enough, it was the Bush girls who slipped their secret service detail and were caught drinking with fake IDs in 2006. Classy, huh? We’ve seen none of this from the left side of the aisle. And strictly as a personal P.S: When you say “classy” in the context of first families, the first name which comes to mind is Michelle Obama. To that list we now add Dr. Jill Biden.
It seems the Far Right has been in the juvenile character assassination business for more than the last four horrible years.
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