placating

It’s no easy job, appeasing the mercurial U.S. president while placating a nationalist base hypersensitive about U.S. meddling.

A number of political commentators have said CNN wanted to move Acosta out of a more visible time period as a way of placating Trump, who is known for being vengeful toward his media critics.

Mexico’s president walks a fine line between pleasing her constituents and placating Trump.

So they go for broke in placating the base and infuriating the opposition, making their fear of losing the next election a self-fulfilling prophecy.

With Carol, we saw that evolution from a placating wife and grieving mother into someone acutely aware of how strangers see her, and the ways that she can use their assumptions to her advantage.