The media elites are traumatized by the events of the White House Correspondents Dinner, and they will not stop talking about it. The problem is that they were never in any real danger people in the United States experiencing real gun violence in cities, towns, schools, churches, restaurants, supermarkets, movie theaters, concerts, dance clubs, neighborhoods and their own homes, every day across the country.
It wasn’t even a day ago that a gunman tried to enter the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and even though government officials say the gunman’s manifesto stated he wanted to kill government officials, the American people aren’t interested in the story.
If you spend five minutes on any form of social media, you’ll quickly notice that the consensus response consists of people claiming the shooter was staged, MAGAs thinking a White House ballroom will solve everything, and some version of the sentiment that the American people have seen this movie twice before and are bored.
The disinterest in the story has shocked some media elites.
Dylan Byers of Puck News posted a long story on X about how a bar in Washington, DC wouldn’t watch Trump’s press conference last night:
We asked a bartender to change the channel to CNN so we could watch the president’s briefing with closed captioning, which they did. But a few minutes later, the bartender said he was informed by the manager that the bar had a policy against showing political content, and that he should get back to exercising.
I tried to imagine what this bar would have looked like on March 30, 1981, about an hour after Hinckley shot Reagan at the same hotel. I imagine that every television would have been on CNN or the special coverage from the broadcast networks, and passersby would have come to watch as well. The media is giving this the ample attention it deserves.
But it is disturbing how desensitized so many people have become – to shootings, of course, but also to political violence and the abnormality of the moment. Maybe I’m wrong, maybe we just chose the wrong bar. But I doubt it. Pew Research recently reported that attention to news in the US has declined across all age groups since 2016, and that young adults (ages 18 to 29) have consistently had the lowest levels. Even as the news itself becomes more and more intense – in politics, geopolitics, technology, etc. – more and more people seem to be tuning out.
And I guess this is how you find yourself in a bar in the nation’s capital, an hour after crouching behind a chair as members of the Secret Service evacuate the President of the United States from the room, and being told that you’re watching Penguins vs. Flyers must watch.
People are very concerned about the crisis of mass shootings and gun violence in the country. They don’t care about a president who treats them poorly, shows contempt for most Americans, and makes their lives worse.
The American people don’t care because media elites who make six, seven, or eight figures a year put themselves in this situation by choosing to hang out with Donald Trump for an evening, and they were never in danger.
The major media is siding with Trump. They are not on the side of the people, which is why most Americans don’t care about their trauma or a possible third attempt on Trump.
It’s all just an endless series of dramas that doesn’t lower prices, lower costs or keep our families safe.
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