From Forward Kentucky: If Donald Trump were your dad, you’d take away his car keys
And the mainstream media is making the situation worse
By BRUCE MAPLES
A new word has exploded onto the political stage over the past two weeks:
Sanewashing.
It means exactly what it looks like: Taking rambling, incoherent rants by Donald Trump and “washing” them so he looks “sane.”
Aaron Rupar, a journalist who is very active on X, has been credited with coining “sanewashing” in this specific context. Multiple stories have been written about it since, including Parker Molloy in The New Republic, who started with this: