It’s difficult to take the media’s claims about attacks on the press seriously when they’re constantly gaslighting the country.

In just two weeks, the national media have completely stripped the word “racist” from any meaning by giving it every meaning.

It’s racist to call a black person dumb. It’s racist to call a black person “wacky” after that black person surreptitiously recorded your conversations together and then called you a racist.

But wait! There are now even time periods you have to take into consideration when practicing the delicate art of “That’s racist!”

After President Trump earlier this month mocked NBA player LeBron James as looking smart only compared to the “dumbest man on television” Don Lemon, the Washington Post ran an “analysis” on who Trump has called dumb, divided by race.

“When Trump tweeted disparagement of LeBron James and CNN’s Don Lemon … it was a reminder that Trump often divides the world into two groups: those who are stupid (or dumb or ‘dummies’ or ‘low IQ’) and those who aren’t,” read the piece. “It was also a reminder that, of late, Trump has often chosen to describe as stupid people who are not white.”

“As of late”?!

The piece acknowledged that Trump has an extensive history of calling an endless streak of white people stupid but, using the official formula for “That’s racist!” divination, the paper was able to pinpoint the time period and data where we can find the racism.

“Before the presidential election, Trump mostly disparaged white people as stupid,” read the analysis. “Of course, back then, his political opponents were mostly white people … Since President Trump’s inauguration, though, that has changed.”

You see? If you only look at the last 19 months of the life of Trump, who is 72 years old, and if you narrow things down to only what he has said on Twitter (which is what the Washington Post did), it becomes clear that the obvious bigot insulted the intelligence of black people twice was much as he did for whites.

That’s racist!

People who only passively consume news each day (and I mean out of the whole public, and not just the “Morning Joe” crew) might have missed that the word “collusion” has almost fully disappeared from the lexicon and has been replaced by the more legally sound term “conspiracy.”

“Let's not use the word colluding, they were conspiring with the Russians, this is a conspiracy,” MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough said two weeks ago. “So, okay, no collusion. A conspiracy. A criminal conspiracy possibly.”

Politics writer Philip Bump wrote a day before in the Washington Post that “There’s no law you can violate that constitutes collusion in the third degree — but working with someone in a conspiracy to break the law is illegal.”

“Conspiracy” came into vogue because of charges against Paul Manafort and Richard Gates filed by special counsel Robert Mueller. The charges have included conspiracy, though all were related to fraud and tax issues and not the Trump campaign.

But the media’s goalposts have shifted and — just be quiet, please.

Over and over again the press asserts that something is true, even though you saw with your own eyes that it’s not.

In July, after Trump’s tour of Europe, reports repeated that Trump called the European Union “a foe” of the U.S.

In reality, CBS’s Jeff Glor first used the word in an interview he conducted with the president. Glor asked who might be considered a “foe,” to which Trump, following Glor’s own use of the term, said, “[T]hat doesn’t mean they’re bad. It doesn’t mean anything. It means that they’re competitors. They want to do well and we want to do well.”

Everyone knows immigrants can hop into the U.S. and jump on welfare, but last week, the media said it wasn’t true, claiming that there’s a five-year wait before they can qualify.

Technically, there is. And yet, under current law, if immigrants have a baby on U.S. soil, as a default citizen, he’s entitled to bring in welfare for the family at birth. Or, if one immigrant marries a citizen, the wait time for benefits shrinks from five years to three. If the immigrants have any children under 18, they’re all allowed benefits, too, mostly in Medicaid and food aid.

In addition to that, all refugees and asylees, 13 percent of legal residents, according to the report by the Center for Immigration Studies, are eligible for full benefits.

None of this takes into account the vast amounts of fraud that the government admits takes place but cannot fully determine the extent of.

But, just take one minor example: Two Iraqi brothers who immigrated in 2011 were sentenced to a combined five years in federal prison after being convicted of a massive welfare fraud scheme involving some $1.4 million in food stamps traded (largely or mostly with immigrants) for cash at a grocery store the two opened in Portland, Maine.

Prosecutors called it "one of the largest, if not the largest, fraud cases" related to food stamps in Maine, according to the local Bangor Daily News.

Don't worry, though, the media told you there’s no welfare issue with immigrants.

It’s no mystery that sympathy for the press, who are supposedly under attack, is so low. Journalists keep lying to the people they want sympathy from.