{"id":390409,"date":"2026-04-09T19:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/390409\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T19:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:58:09","slug":"declan-lynch-when-it-comes-to-donald-trump-just-give-it-to-us-strait-were-well-able-to-handle-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/390409\/","title":{"rendered":"Declan Lynch: When it comes to Donald Trump, just give it to us Strait \u2013 we\u2019re well able to handle it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nRadio reviews\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the White House. Photo: AP\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/357ca03f-4575-.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the White House. Photo: AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Sanewashing is a word that had to be invented to describe how the more strait-laced media outlets were covering the speeches and tweets and other outpourings of Donald Trump. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Typically, it might involve him addressing some MAGA rally in a deranged fashion, making all sorts of abusive statements about the many people he hates, in a wildly incoherent style. If you were to look at it written down, you would conclude it was probably time that the speaker was committed to a secure institution. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Radio reviews President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the White House. Photo: AP Sanewashing is a word&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17562,969,93,61,11829,60,6133,6992,6085],"class_list":["post-390409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-declan-lynch","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-iran","tag-ireland","tag-newstalk","tag-people-culture-magazine","tag-rte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}