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Leftist Writer: Obama Is America’s Daddy, Trump Is Stepfather Raping The Country

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May 1, 2018 DailyWire.com

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On Monday, a writer whose leftist credentials are impeccable, issued one of the most hilariously ill-considered tweets of the recent past, likening Barack Obama to America’s father, President Trump to the stepfather who would rape the country, and the media to the compliant mother enabling Trump:

When Obama left the White House in a helicopter that horrible day, I had the impression our true father was leaving & the nation was stuck with a stepfather who was going to rape us. Now I increasingly believe that the media is the mother who won’t stand up for us & defy him.
— Virginia Heffernan (@page88) April 30, 2018

Virginia Heffernan has worked as a staff writer for The New York Times, a TV critic for Slate, where she hosts its “Trumpcast” podcast, and a fact-checker for The New Yorker.

Heffernan’s tweet elicited some pointed comments:

I’m sensing some unresolved issues here https://t.co/Qe1urXKq5h
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) May 1, 2018

POTUS isn’t your daddy… Trump, Obama, Bush, etc etc… The fact that you’re looking to these men as father-figures is disturbing.
— Joe M (@JoeDMillard) May 1, 2018

You’re a journalist who thought of Obama as your father. That’s exactly the problem with your industry right there. Plus you think the media is actually going easy on Trump when they are engaged in sedition.
And you wonder why people don’t believe the media anymore.
— NYPatriot (@NWOinPanicMode) May 1, 2018

A true dad to me, played baseball, chops wood, teaches gun safety, spent time in the military and teaches the appropriate way to treat woman…guess we have different views on a father figure
— Martineau (@Martine25515018) May 1, 2018

Serious daddy issues
— Kyle Dominy™️ (@SheepLikeYou) May 1, 2018

#TheDelusion is REAL
Claiming the MSM won’t stand up to Trump is pure unadulterated delusion!
The MSM attack him 24/7
— Pol0tix (@Pol0tix) May 1, 2018

She sounds like an unbiased journalist
— Scott (@Scotth0906) May 1, 2018

Totally normal behavior pic.twitter.com/BLqywd7KPp
— GameDudeChris (@GameDudeChris) May 1, 2018

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