{"id":2549,"date":"2026-04-24T17:02:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/?p=2549"},"modified":"2026-04-24T17:05:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:05:25","slug":"donald-trump-still-has-the-anti-midas-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/donald-trump-still-has-the-anti-midas-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump still has the anti-Midas touch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">Everything he touches turns from lead to horse dung.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"753\" src=\"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-24-at-4.41.16-PM-1024x753.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-24-at-4.41.16-PM-1024x753.png 1024w, https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-24-at-4.41.16-PM-300x221.png 300w, https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-24-at-4.41.16-PM-768x565.png 768w, https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-24-at-4.41.16-PM-1536x1130.png 1536w, https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-24-at-4.41.16-PM.png 2044w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">It can bear his stink, but now, journalism is now 200% more dead!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Lower ratings, lower circulation, and just plain propagandistic garbage. The propaganda is so bad that even I don&#8217;t get any pleasure out of tearing it to pieces. It&#8217;s like, &#8220;Duh, an empty narcissist wrote this copy about himself; and it&#8217;s all lies. I am sure he did not get enough love as a child.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The man is literally the grossest thing in the world, and giving in to his narcissism was a big mistake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The old saying, <em>If you can&#8217;t beat them, join them, <\/em>is <strong><em>not <\/em><\/strong>advisable if joining them means jumping into a toilet bowl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">If you can&#8217;t beat them, close the lid, put a big brick on it, and wisely run away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Journalists who went along can rightfully feel like trash, but media owners who played along are just horse dung because the Anti-Midas touched them. Those paper crowns become a joke. I am not even Catholic, but the best news anchor around is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DRLvzhsDm3e\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Pope Leo<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">If the president is happy with your coverage, you are propaganda. If he screams, you did journalism. The trick is do upset presidents on both the Left and Right. You can&#8217;t pick sides. Journalists never seem to learn the right lesson, and that&#8217;s how they got snookered by a low-intelligence grifter who could be brought down to size in seconds if the profession was functional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything he touches turns from lead to horse dung. It can bear his stink, but now, journalism is now 200% more dead! Lower ratings, lower circulation, and just plain propagandistic garbage. The propaganda is so bad that even I don&#8217;t get any pleasure out of tearing it to pieces. It&#8217;s like, &#8220;Duh, an empty narcissist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,460],"tags":[305,21,569,63,166,352,26,42],"class_list":["post-2549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexandra-kitty","category-the-damage-report","tag-anna-nicolaou","tag-donald-trump","tag-eva-xiao","tag-financial-times","tag-journalism","tag-pope-leo","tag-propaganda","tag-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2552,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions\/2552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}