The editor’s note at the top of Garth Kant’s July 16 WorldNetDaily article, gushingly headlined “The 5 pillars of Trump foreign policy unveiled,” stated that it would be the “first in a series of special reports by WND White House reporter Garth Kant examining President Donald Trump’s foreign policy.” This being WND, of course, there was not of lot of “examining” and much more defense of — and praise for — Trump.
To give an example of his fealty to Trump, Kant begins by prominently citing none other than dubious Trump toady “Dr. Sebastian Gorka” to baselessly assert that Trump would “fill the vacuum created by eight years of feckless Obama lack of leadership.” Kant knows how to suck up to Gorka and help him overcompensate: by calling him “Dr.” even though he has only a Ph.D., not a medical degree, and that Gorka’s doctoral thesis for a Hungarian university has been widely mocked as unworthy of a undergraduate student in the U.S.
Kant’s article was filled with more gushing, declaring at one point that Trump’s “moral clarity means returning to such basic concepts as an objective right and wrong, and good and evil. And the imperative to confront evil.” The fact that Trump apparently has no personal sense of right and wrong doesn’t seem to bother Kant.
Regarding Trump’s speech in Poland, Kant slobbered that the president “was not afraid to defend Western values, again and again” and that “The speech was hailed as soaring and inspirational by the president’s supporters.” (Kant himself included, presumably.) He huffed regarding the speech’s critics:
In marked contrast, the president’s critics in the establishment media took his unabashed defense of Western civilization as an ethnocentric and religiously bigoted defense of racist white nationalism.
However, the president did not denigrate other cultures. He lauded the accomplishments of the West. He even described Muslims as partners in combatting the terrorist threat to the West.
Kant didn’t mention that his own employer effectively agreed with the ethnocentric bent of Trump’s speech.
Kant concluded with even more gushing:
Trump is brash. But he is also the most successful businessman to ever lead the nation. He is unlike any other president, ever. That makes him a mystery. But it also makes him something that may portend great potential.
Perhaps the most apt word to describe the man is unique.
Gorka has stressed that Trump is “a very different kind of president.”
A look at that, and just how important it is, in the second part of this series.
Needless to say, that July 18 follow-up continued the gushing, with Kant complaining that the media won’t fawn over Trump the way he does:
Indeed, as the six-month-old administration forges ahead in its efforts to reverse Obama-era failures and implement a broadly appealing “America First” agenda, the media, especially in the White House, are constantly trying to apply the brakes.
The average American might be stunned to witness in person just how transparently top White House reporters in daily press briefings are dedicated to probing for anything possibly detrimental to the president, constantly looking for an opening and a line of attack to damage the administration. And how visibly upset they become when stymied. It’s more than being a watchdog – more like an attack dog.
The visceral dislike of the administration briefly boiled over after the White House made a series of subtle adjustments that eventually did turn down the heat, including making networks occasionally turn off the cameras during daily press briefings.
This from a so-called reporter whose dislike of President Obama and his administration was so visceral that he used WND to spread lies about Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
This time around, the Trump suck-up Kant is quoting is Newt Gingrich, to whom Kant gives an uncritical platform to tout how he “came up with a series of principles to help explain Trumpism, which may be equally useful in understanding the president’s foreign policy strategies.
Kant gushed even further about Trump’s “uniqueness,” declaring that “Trump had effectively turned the overwhelming liability of an intimidating adversarial press into an asset by feeding the networks’ hunger for ratings. Yet his appeal was so unique, the major media could not understand it.”
Sounds like there’s a certain White House Kant is auditioning to get a job in.