Most of the news papers in America have closed the chapter for Donald Trump. The USA Today is the latest American newspaper that has concluded that Republican candidate Donald Trump is not fit to become the country’s President. Earlier, several other major publications, including The New York Times,Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times, have come out against Mr. Trump.
“By all means vote, just not for Donald Trump,” USA Today told its readers, taking sides in a presidential campaign for the first time in 34 years. The newspaper’s editorial board was unanimous that the Republican candidate is unfit to be President but it did not endorse Democrat Hillary Clinton. “Whatever you do… resist the siren song of a dangerous demagogue,” the paper wrote.
Apart from the big papers, numerous smaller publications, some of them ardent conservatives for more than a century, have declared their opposition to Mr. Trump. The Arizona Republic, The Dallas Morning News and The Cincinnati Enquirer are among them.
Not all the papers that are opposed to Mr. Trump have endorsed Clinton. While NYT and LA Timeshave endorsed Ms. Clinton, Washington Post has not. Mr. Trump has been described as “a unique and present danger”, “uniquely unqualified to serve as President, in experience and temperament”, “the worst nominee put forward by a major party in modern American history”, and “a catastrophe”, by various newspapers.
“Trump is erratic. He is ill-equipped to be commander in chief. He traffics in prejudice. His business career is checkered. He isn’t leveling with the American people. He speaks recklessly. He has coarsened the national dialogue. He’s a serial liar,” The USA Today said.
