The “Hamburglar “, fusion of words hamburger and burglar (“Burglar”), which refers to a character in McDonald’s commercials, ignited the conservative media ecosystem for a weekend. It all starts with a British tabloid article The Daily Mail, which, on April 22, tendentiously links Joe Biden’s ambitions to reduce greenhouse gases and a university study advocating reducing the consumption of red meat to achieve the same result.
This track was not mentioned by the President of the United States during the virtual climate summit on the same day, and it never appeared in his program. The Republican opposition, spurred on by Fox News, rushes to accuse him of wanting to reduce the consumption of meat by Americans to a single hamburger per month.
The newly elected Trumpists Marjorie Taylor Greene (Georgia) and Lauren Boebert (Colorado) are unleashed on social networks, the second ordering Joe Biden to ” get out of [sa] cooked », While the governors of Texas and Idaho join the chorus of indignant, before each one does not turn back pitifully, for lack of any element supporting these accusations.
Scandal around a children’s book
In the meantime, other elected Republicans have already embarked on the trail of another scandal on the basis of an article published this time by the newspaper. The New York Post, one of the few supporters of Donald Trump in the American press. It talks about a children’s book, published by Vice President Kamala Harris, before she took on this role. This work, ensures the New York Post, taken up by Fox News – both owned by Rupert Murdoch – would be offered to all unaccompanied minors hosted at the border with Mexico and whose number has exploded since the arrival at the White House of Joe Biden.
The head of the highest authority of the Republican Party, Ronna McDaniel, protests: “Is Kamala Harris taking advantage of the border crisis?” “ Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton laments that taxpayers “Be forced to buy” this book for “Illegal migrants” . Verification made, only one copy of the book was donated to a reception center in California, by an association. The journalist who signed the article in New York Post resigned on April 27, after publicly expressing regret.
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