Jennifer Rubin was bemoaning the GOP’s undying loyalty to the worst president in U.S. history. She may have offended some of her editors at Washington Post with this observation:

And, frankly, the mainstream media has made it that much easier for cowardly Republicans to stick with Trump. Rather than challenge Republicans at every turn to defend their embrace of Trump or even to examine seriously the historical origins of toxic racist, xenophobic and delusional beliefs, the mainstream media largely sticks to horserace politics.

Right. Just when you think the corporate media can’t get any lamer, they hit you with another puff piece about Donald Trump’s latest adventures on the campaign trail. A few weeks ago, for example, when reporters covered his carefully staged appearance at Pat’s King of Steaks in South Philly, a few miles from my home in the Tinicum swamp.

My neighbor Swamp Rabbit listened to me vent about the event and said, “I was in the neighborhood that day, walking to Ray’s Happy Birthday Bar. Why was Trump at Pat’s?”

I reminded him that Pat’s is where you can order a greasy minute steak on a long roll and top it with an artery clogger called Cheez Whiz. If you’re eating a cheesesteak at Pat’s, then your diet is a lot like Trump’s. Chances are your politics are like his, too.

“Trump is the embodiment of the Cheez Whiz lifestyle,” I said. ” He’s even the same color.”

“You’re one of them reverse bigots,” Swamp Rabbit replied. “Puttin’ down peeps just coz they’re tacky and don’t eat right.”

“Fair enough,” I said. “But my point is that the media were focused on the food when they should have been focused on the questionable legality of his candidacy.”

I noted that Trump was impeached twice while president. That he has since been found liable in civil court for sexual assault, indicted for his role in paying hush money to a porn star, indicted on charges related to the mishandling of classified documents, and likely to be indicted soon in separate cases involving the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol and election interference in Georgia.

“Every story about Trump should mention there’s something wrong with laws that allow an indicted lowlife to run for office,” I said. “The laws shouldn’t allow Republicans to nominate an extra-large tub of Cheez Whiz for president again.”

“Maybe not, but that’s for the peeps to decide,” Swamp Rabbit replied. “That’s democracy in America, Odd Man.”

Footnote: We’re not talking about poor people here. Cheesesteaks at Pat’s are expensive. The cheesesteak eaters include many tourists and suburbanites.

Update: Trump was hit with three new felony charges yesterday, none of them related to the Jan. 6 incident. How many rats will flee before the ship finally sinks?