(1) About Trump, Twitter and "glorifying violence": cultures of violence don’t emerge overnight, and the US media need to do some serious soul-searching about decades of coverage before Trump became President that set the stage for where we are today.

(2) Media outlets (especially CNN) turned the killing of innocent civilians in Iraq into pornographic prime-time entertainment, legitimating killing as tool of power to the US people...yet now condemn Trump's racist calls for violence. And, Iraq is just one case of many.

(3) For decades US media watched in silence as death penalty was used -- in clearly disproportionate numbers -- against African-Americans. That US was one of the only wealthy nations in the world to use this barbaric tool wasn’t an issue. Glorification can come via acceptance.

(4) US news media also chose to ignore, until #BlackLivesMatter made it impossible to do so, the use of lethal state violence against poor, African-American men. The message with this silence was/is that certain lives are disposable, and that violence of this kind is acceptable.

(5) A critical analysis of the existence of a shameful number of US citizens living and dying in abject poverty -- in a country that proudly brags about being the richest in the world -- without recourse to decent healthcare, was never presented by US news to the extent required.

(6) As news media routinely knelt in awe front of US military (a machine of violence), rarely was it asked by that media how many lives could be saved by cutting 5% of US defense spending & putting that into healthcare, food programs, poverty reduction. Glorification of violence.

(7) A failure (or unwillingness) to address the need for serious and effective gun control was also a hallmark of US news. 12,000 gun homicides a year didn’t seem to be serious enough, yet the relatively small threat of Islamic terror in the US was hyped. Priorities.

(8) Of course, all of this violence was embraced (or ignored) by a US media owned and funded by corporations with a vested interest in a culture of violence, or worried that opposing military violence or fighting poverty would alienate advertisers, thus impacting the bottom line.

(9) Corporate US news media have vested interest in undermining collective solidarity: from unions to fight for living minimum wage. Individualism pitched as de facto US way of life w/"socialist" politics portrayed as weak and un-American. Undermining justice is also violence.

(10) Then we have coverage of candidate Trump. When bragging about sexual assault or encouraging supporters to assault protesters, the US news media remained "objective" and normalized his candidacy, calling him "different" or "provocative." News media leveraged violence for $$$.

(11) None of this absolves Trump's awfulness. This is about how we got here. The US news media pitching themselves as the wall of resistance against Trumpism, when the fact is that decades of their coverage of US society & politics helped set the table for what we see before us.

(12) Threats of violence abhorrent, and real discussion of Trumpism and violence must re-connect with cultures of alienation and violence promoted for decades years by news organizations, pop culture and then social media. Without that, any "analysis" is self-serving bullshit.

(13) So, while there's a certain amount of media satisfaction that Twitter said Trump was "glorifying violence," ask yourself what volume of US news coverage over past 50 years would qualify for same label, then ask how that set the stage for Trump's tweet to be a vote-getter.