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This weekend, the right-wing Italian daily Libero<\/em><\/em>, a major conservative newspaper that shares a fair amount of Donald Trump\u2019s politics, ran a one-word verdict on the President of the United States across its front page. The Italian word is coglione<\/em><\/em>. The polite translation is \u201cidiot.\u201d The translation that George Conway and half of social media reached for, and the one the paper plainly intended, is a good deal blunter than that<\/u> and more dictionary accurate<\/u>: \u201ca–hole.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more Trump insults his own cabinet secretary on live TV mid-Einstein story: \u2018Nobody cares\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

What set the newspaper off wasn\u2019t the war, or the self-dealing, or the cruelty toward immigrants: it was Trump\u2019s lie about a photograph. He pathetically told an Italian network that Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had \u201c<\/strong>begged\u201d him repeatedly for a picture<\/u><\/strong> at the G7 in \u00c9vian, that she\u2019d wanted it so badly he \u201cfelt sorry for her\u201d and went along.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meloni, who until a week ago was Trump\u2019s closest ally in Europe (and the only one who came to his inauguration), called the story \u201ccompletely fabricated\u201d and said neither she nor Italy ever begs. Her foreign minister cancelled his trip to Washington in protest.<\/p>\n

And a conservative Italian newspaper looked at the most powerful man on Earth inventing a petty, humiliating story about a friendly head of state for no reason anyone could name but his own wretched, needy, emotionally-stunted ego and decided that therefore there was exactly one accurate word for him.<\/p>\n

A newspaper in Milan, run by people who\u2019d probably vote for him if they had the chance, will say in a banner headline what our own press, knowing far more about this man than they do, still treats as unspeakable.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So let\u2019s do what our major papers won\u2019t, and lay the record out in plain English:<\/p>\n

\u2014 A jury in Manhattan found Trump liable for sexually abusing the writer E. Jean Carroll, and the federal judge who presided, Lewis Kaplan, wrote in his own ruling<\/u> that what the jury concluded Trump did amounts to \u201crape as ordinary people understand the word,\u201d even if it didn\u2019t fit New York\u2019s narrow penal statute.<\/p>\n

\u2014 We have him on tape, in his own voice, bragging that his fame lets him grab women. And continuously trash-talking female reporters.<\/p>\n

\u2014 We have the Eric Trump Foundation, set up to raise money for children dying of cancer at St. Jude, quietly paying hundreds of thousands of those donated dollars to his father\u2019s golf courses and steering more than half a million<\/u> to other groups tied to Trump interests, while donors believed every dollar was going to sick kids.<\/p>\n

\u2014 We have a \u201cuniversity\u201d that wasn\u2019t a university, shut down after he paid twenty-five million dollars to settle fraud claims from the students it fleeced.<\/p>\n

\u2014 We have a memecoin he launched days before his inauguration that enriched his family and a handful of insiders by hundreds of millions of dollars in fees<\/u>, even as the small-dollar believers who bought in on the strength of his name watched the thing collapse by more than ninety percent.<\/p>\n

\u2014 And we have a shooting war against Iran that began in February, with American bombs and a dead Iranian Supreme Leader, that Congress never voted on and that the Brennan Center for Justice called flatly unconstitutional<\/u>.<\/p>\n

Every one of those facts has been reported, sourced, litigated, and confirmed, and they\u2019re really just the tip of the corruption and criminality iceberg which also includes 34 felony convictions and the apparent sale of pardons. And yet pick up the average front page on any given morning and you\u2019ll find the man at the center of all of it described as \u201ccontroversial,\u201d or \u201cpolarizing,\u201d or \u201cunconventional.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

You\u2019ll read that he \u201cmade claims\u201d or \u201cstoked tensions\u201d or \u201cbroke with norms.\u201d<\/p>\n

Press critic Margaret Sullivan and journalist Aaron Rupar gave this habit a name a couple of years back: they call it \u201csanewashing,\u201d the steady translation of genuinely deranged, asinine conduct into the calm, gray vocabulary of normal politics, and the <\/strong>Columbia Journalism Review<\/u><\/strong> has documented how reporters keep reaching for euphemism precisely when the moment calls for the plain word.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read more Stephen Miller fumes over Trump\u2019s stinging new defeats in court<\/a><\/p>\n

Why do they do it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Part of it is the old religion of objectivity<\/strong>, the conviction that a serious reporter never uses a sharp word about a politician no matter what that politician does, as though neutrality between an arsonist and a fire department were the height of professionalism.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Part of it is fear.<\/strong> Like Putin in his early days, Trump sues, and the corporations that own our biggest networks and newspapers would rather write him a check than fight him in court even when they\u2019d likely win, and every settlement teaches the next editor to soften the next headline. Scholars who study democratic collapse have watched this dynamic up close, and they\u2019ll tell you that newsrooms grow reluctant to use the accurate word<\/u> for a man precisely as the accurate word becomes most necessary.<\/p>\n

\u2014 And part of it tracks back a half-century to RNC Chairman Rich Bond telling Republicans to scream \u201cliberal bias\u201d<\/strong> every time a newspaper or reporter told a true story that reflected poorly on Republicans. \u201cWork the refs\u201d was his instruction.<\/p>\n

I lived in Germany for a stretch in the 1980s, and one of the things I noticed reading the papers there was how brutally unafraid European journalists were to call a powerful person a fool or a liar to his face, in print, right there in the headline. It wasn\u2019t recklessness. It was memory.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Germans of that generation knew exactly what happens when a press decides that the polite thing, the cautious thing, the access-preserving thing \u2014 as had happened there in the 1930s \u2014 is to keep describing a dangerous man in reasonable language, until the day comes when it\u2019s too late to describe him any other way.<\/p>\n

But today in America, a handful of giant corporations and right-wing billionaires have come to own most of what Americans read and watch, and that concentration now quietly shapes the boundaries of what those outlets will say about the powerful people they both report on and often fear.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Italians still have a mainstream press scrappy enough, and independent enough, to call a spade a spade. We used to.<\/p>\n

The Founders didn\u2019t protect the press in the First Amendment so it could practice stenography. They gave it that protection so it would tell the country the truth, bluntly, when the powerful would rather it didn\u2019t, and so it would be the thing that warned us <\/strong>before<\/em><\/strong><\/em> the danger arrived rather than after.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A free press that won\u2019t name what\u2019s in front of its own eyes isn\u2019t being fair. It\u2019s failing at the one job the Constitution set aside for it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So here\u2019s where you come in, because the press won\u2019t fix itself and the politicians won\u2019t fix it for us. Cancel the subscription to any outlet that keeps calling a documented fraud \u201cunconventional,\u201d and put that money toward independent journalism that uses real words.<\/p>\n

Make sure you\u2019re registered and ready at vote.org<\/u>, and look up exactly who represents you at the state level at openstates.org<\/u>, because the people who\u2019ll decide whether your vote even counts in 2026 are sitting in your statehouse right now.<\/p>\n

And if this piece said something you think more people need to hear in plain language, then do the thing the Italian editors did. Don\u2019t soften it. Share it, forward it, post it, and send folks to hartmannreport.com<\/em><\/u><\/em> so we can keep telling the truth here without a billionaire owner deciding which words I\u2019m allowed to use.<\/p>\n

The morbidly rich and GOP are counting on our politeness. Let\u2019s disappoint these, as the Italians would say, \u201cassholes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more The true vandal of DC caught red-handed<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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