Here’s a riddle for you: What’s more embarrassing than a president who openly peddles in racist imagery? The answer: Puppets posing as pundits, with their heads jammed so far up their ideological rectums that they blindly defend the indefensible. The latest episode of the Trump Circus – his racist video – saw his media lackeys executing the most pitiful of somersaults, attempting to excuse the inexcusable.

Let's be clear: These Trump loyalists didn't misread the racist imagery. They chose to ignore it, waving a flimsy white flag of surrender to their last shreds of dignity. They revealed that in the Trumpian era, loyalty doesn't just outrank judgment, it steamrolls it into an unrecognizable smear on the pavement of journalistic integrity.

Trump’s media allies are not journalists. They are nothing more than well-dressed, well-spoken mouthpieces for a president who commands their slavish devotion. They have traded their critical thinking skills and professional credibility for the chance to sit at the feet of a man who wouldn’t recognize truth if it smacked him in the face with a subpoena.

And who are these power players in the Trump propaganda machine? Fox News, the undisputed champion of alt-right echo chambers, is home to the likes of Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson. These two have made careers out of spinning lies into "alternative facts," bending over backward to defend the indefensible, and promoting a racist, divisive agenda under the guise of patriotism.

Hannity, Carlson, and their ilk have shown time and time again that they are more than willing to sacrifice their dignity on the altar of Trump’s ego. They have normalized the abnormal, excused the inexcusable, and defended the indefensible, all in the name of loyalty to a man who wouldn’t hesitate to throw them under the bus if it served his purpose.

Indeed, the disturbing reality is that these media lackeys are simply pieces in Trump's grand game of chess. They are pawns, manipulated and moved at will to serve his egotistical agenda. They willingly choose to blind themselves to the blatant racism, the gross misconduct, and the flagrant abuses of power that characterize Trump's reign of terror.

Their willful ignorance is not just embarrassing. It’s dangerous. It normalizes the abnormal, it legitimizes the illegitimate, and it emboldens the bigot. They have a responsibility as journalists to hold those in power accountable, to question, to probe, to expose. Instead, they have chosen to parrot the party line, to excuse the inexcusable, to ignore the glaring truth in favor of the comforting lie.

But let us not fool ourselves. These media puppets are not the villains of this story. They are merely henchmen, lackeys, foot soldiers in Trump’s war on truth. The true villain is Trump himself, the puppet master who pulls their strings, commands their loyalty, and revels in their sycophantic adoration.

So here's the brutal truth, stripped bare of diplomatic niceties: As long as these media puppets willingly contort themselves to manipulate reality in favor of their orange overlord, they will continue to be hapless footnotes in the tragic comedy that is the Trump presidency. They are not journalists, they are jesters in the court of King Trump, and their antics are a sad, pathetic testament to the depths to which public discourse in this country has sunk.