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By Joe Concha

We once had Teflon John, as in Gotti. Then we had Teflon Ron, as in Reagan.

Now make way for Teflon Don, as in Trump.

Pity the Democrats and their legacy media mouthpieces, who just can’t seem to find any attack line that sticks to the 45th and soon-to-be 47th president.

Practice makes perfect, the old saying goes.

But that doesn’t apply to today’s Dems, who have been smearing Trump for the better part of a decade without dragging him down.

They can’t seem to find anything Americans — outside of those who still trust The New York Times and CNN — see as truly impactful or worth their outrage.

And that leaves the legacy media flailing to find a new negative narrative.

Here’s just a partial list of lies that have bounced off Trump’s armor:

Trump is an agent of the Kremlin (nyet).

Trump called neo-Nazis fine people (he didn’t).

Trump built cages for migrant kids (Obama did, actually).

Trump’s own rhetoric is to blame for two assassination attemptsagainst him (you’re kidding, right?)

Trump is a threat to Our Democracy (until he won the popular vote).

But in the last few weeks, as Inauguration Day looms, the charges have gotten downright silly.

For example, the notion that Elon Musk is the shadow president and runs Trump.

Take this December CNN headline: “Trump bristles at Musk’s rocketing profile as Democrats play on the president-elect’s vanity”

For a week or two, the left seemed to believe this effort would deflate Trump’s popularity — yet he remains at his highest approval ever.

By the way, no one runs Donald Trump. Don’t they get that by now?

This week’s Jan. 6 coverage was equally ludicrous.

Sunny Hostin of “The View,” which incredibly falls under ABC’s news division, equated the 2021 riot at the Capitol with World War II and the Holocaust, global events that in aggregate left 85 million dead, including hundreds of thousands of US troops.

But despite the media’s maudlin wall-to-wall coverage, Americans greeted Jan. 6’s fourth anniversary with mostly apathy.

Per a CNN poll, when asked to name their biggest memory of Trump’s first term, just 5% of Americans said Jan. 6

If you’re looking for a definition of “media disconnect,” this most certainly would be it.

In recent weeks, Trump has broached the possibility of buying Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark.

Reason: Military strategy, of course, as well as a chance to tap the huge island’s abundant oil, gas and rare-earth minerals.

Greenlanders today can’t benefit, because of bans on drilling and mining. Result: 95% of Greenland’s economy depends on exports and subsidies from Denmark.

But instead of looking at this possible acquisition objectively, the media jumped right to their two favorite gambits: fear and hyperbole.

MSNBC’s Alex Wagner hyperventilated, “America will have to decide if it wants to be on the side of sovereignty and self-determination or on the side of imperial expansion.”

NBC News: “Greenlanders are worried to find themselves on Trump’s shopping list”

The New York Times: “Make Greenland Great Again’? No Thank You, Greenlanders Say”

Not sure when Greenland was great, but OK.

You get the point. The legacy-media reflex when it comes to Trump is the same it’s been since 2015: Anything Trump seeks to do, whip up a narrative tarring it as unpopular or extreme, throw in words like “imperial” and titles like “Emperor,” and watch the echo chamber do its thing.

Albeit to no avail.

On Friday, barring a save from the Supreme Court, Judge Juan Merchan will sentence Trump in the so-called hush-money case that was obviously a politically motivated act of lawfare.

The left would love nothing better, in the days leading up to his second inauguration, than to repeat over and over again that Trump is the first convicted felon to serve as president.

But just like his two (two!) show-trial impeachments, most Americans won’t care.

Why? Because the name-calling won’t lower their grocery or energy prices.

It won’t fight violent crime in their communities.

It won’t end the largely avoidable California wildfires.

And it won’t secure the border or end the chaos overseas.

That’s why Trump won in November — because Americans see him as the leader who can turn this mess around.

On Jan 20, Teflon Don will return to the Oval Office.

While the media’s influence remains where it has been for some time: in the toilet.

Joe Concha is the author of “Progressively Worse: Why Today’s Democrats Ain’t Your Daddy’s Donkeys.”