[Baltimore Sun] How politicians cynically seek to manipulate us | READER COMMENTARY
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I have just checked the last several editions of The Baltimore Sun and have confirmed that the Associated Press, the Sinclair National Desk and the opinion pages of the paper refer to the Republican candidate for president, appropriately, as former President Donald Trump, Donald Trump, or Trump, never President Trump (“Trump can’t escape his ‘So what?’ moment from Jan. 6,” Oct. 4).
Uniformly, politicians supporting Trump’s reelection refer to him inappropriately as “President Trump.” We heard it repeatedly from U.S. Sen. JD Vance during the Oct. 1 vice-presidential debate. And from Vance we heard over 20 times say “Tim” as he addressed Democratic vice-presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
I see these inaccurate and familiar usages — as well as Trump’s deliberate mispronunciation of the first name of his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris — as examples of cynical, strategic decisions to have voters hear demeaning utterances and confabulated descriptions that may influence their preferences.
— Randy Barker, Baltimore
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