Television
Apr 18, 2018
President’s tweets are “normal.”

During the Morning Joe conversation about President Donald Trump breaking his Twitter silence about his battle with adult film actress Stormy Daniels, raising questions about the sketch of a man who Daniels said harassed her to keep her from talking about a sexual encounter with Trump, veteran columnist Mike Barnicle explains: “The odd thing, though, is you get the feeling that the back and forth over the tweets and all of the tweets from the president, specifically, have sort of immunized much of the nation into thinking that, ‘oh, yeah, this is normal.’ I think that’s the most dangerous aspect of all of this—that people think, ‘this is normal discourse. This is what the president does.’” Listen to more of the discussion here.