Members of the mainstream media had a field day propagating
more fake news recently. And this
story is obviously fishy. President Trump, in Japan on his Asian tour, and
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, carried on an old tradition of feeding Koi
at a pond in Tokyo. Prime Minister Abe and President Trump took turns spooning
out feed to the waiting fish for a brief period, and then the Prime Minister
threw out the rest of the food remaining in his box. Trump followed suit as
Prime Minister Abe smiled radiantly. That is a simple factual recounting of
what actually transpired.
So, CNN
reported via headline: “Trump feeds fish, winds up pouring entire box of food
into koi pond.” Adding to the utter fabrication of a bizarrely scrutinized
moment, CNN reporter Veronica Rocha’s tweet only shows the president dumping
what was left in his box of food. She obviously edited the footage to omit
Prime minister Abe doing the same thing before Trump mirrored his actions.
Justin
Sink, White House correspondent for Bloomberg News, tweeted that Trump “decided
to just dump the whole box in for the fish.”
Other
media outlets were similarly aghast at Trumps “laziness,” carelessness, or “impatience.”
(I’m surprised they didn’t charge Trump
with appropriating Japanese culture).
The
Guardian stated: “White House reporters, keen perhaps to pick up on a Trump
gaffe, captured the moment when he upended his box on their smartphones and
tweeted evidence of his questionable grasp of fish keeping. Some speculated
that a poor palace employee would be dispatched to the scene to clean up the
mess as soon as the two leaders disappeared inside.” It ran a complimentary
story about the dangers of overfeeding
fish.
One
Twitter user wrote: “Abe is basically watching in polite rage-horror as the
epic orange buffoon tries to kill his fish.” This tweet sounds like it emanated
from the Korean Central News Agency. Psychoses isn’t a strong enough term to
describe what’s afflicting these anti-Trumpers. President Trump was feeding
these fish, not killing them. Koi
are colored varieties of Amur carp
that are kept for decorative purposes in outdoor koi ponds or water
gardens. Amur carp routinely eat two or three times their body weight
daily. The boxes of fish food were small, maybe 8 inches on a side by six
inches tall, and the president followed the lead of his host.
It
should be, but sadly is not, truly stunning that the media and its leftist
sycophants literally fabricated a story out of whole cloth to make the
President of the United States appear to be a lazy, impatient, animal-abusing
ignoramus, guilty of “overfeeding” ravenous rough-fish. That they are using
this fish tale to carp at the president as he embarks on this Asian trip to
reassure our allies in the face of North Korean nuclear saber-rattling, potentially
improve relations with China, and negotiate fairer trade deals is simply
mind-boggling.
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