“You’re making a gigantic mistake, and I welcome it.”
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The mainstream media’s widespread mischaracterization of President Donald Trump’s comments Wednesday about MS-13 gang members has even conservative radio host Glenn Beck wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat.
Throughout the 2016 presidential election, Beck was fiercely opposed to Trump. In fact, the billionaire politician once made a habit of dissing the commentator on Twitter:
I hear @glennbeck is in big trouble. Unlike me, his viewers & ratings are way down & he has become irrelevant—glad I didn’t do his show.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 8,2015
. @GlennBeck got fired like a dog by #Fox. The Blaze is failing and he wanted to have me on his show. I said no – because he is irrelevant.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 17,2015
The only reason irrelevant @GlennBeck doesn’t like me is I refused to do his failing show – asked many times. Very few listeners – sad!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 23,2016
It’s amazing how much time this presidential candidate is spending on someone who is so “irrelevant” cc @realDonaldTrump
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) January 23,2016
At one point, just weeks away from Election Day, Beck revealed he briefly considered voting for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He ultimately said he couldn’t do it because both she and Trump were “bad” candidates.
Until the end, Beck was immovably opposed to Trump. But then he was elected, and Beck promised his listeners to give Trump a fair shake — praising him when he thought he was right and rebuking him when he felt the new president was wrong.
Now it appears Beck, who endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) for president in 2016, is getting on the Trump train.
“If you can get me, Glenn Beck to do this — and in case you’re only listening to us on radio, I just donned a red ‘Make America Great Again’ hat,” Beck said Friday. “[I]f you can drive me to the point where I’ll wear one of these stupid red hats, I’m telling you, you’re making a gigantic mistake, and I welcome it.”
Beck’s comments came just two days after, during a roundtable discussion of California’s “sanctuary state” policies, Trump referred to violent MS-13 gang members who come into the U. S. illegally as “animals.”
Immediately after the president made the remark, the internet was bombarded with reports from outlets like The New York Times, CBS News, CNN, and the Associated Press erroneously claiming he called all immigrants “animals.”
The media bias alone, Beck said, is enough to get him to support Trump, whom he predicted would win by a “landslide” in 2020.
“He’s one guy…. You’re a legion of people with global resources, 24 hours a day, hammering one man,” Beck said. “Just hammering over, and over, and over again. And you don’t believe in your case — you don’t believe that the truth is enough. You’ve just gotta make stuff up.
“This is truly Trump derangement syndrome,” he added.
Tré Goins-Phillips is a writer for IJR operating out of Lynchburg, Virginia. After graduating from Liberty University, where he served as the opinion… more
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