As America enters a dark tunnel of dangerous internal divisions and an increasingly violent public discourse, Donald Trump is escalating his attacks on many of this nation’s institutions.
One of the most dramatic battlegrounds is the US president’s war on the media.
It was typified this week when Trump announced he was beginning a $US15 billion ($22 billion) defamation lawsuit against The New York Times.
It was not for any particular article, but rather a general dislike of one of the country’s oldest, and most cherished, institutions. Trump is arguing the paper has become a mouthpiece for the Democrats and in general defames him.
He’s doing this because it works for him. His MAGA base — the Make America Great Again loyalists who twice propelled him into the White House — delight in his attacks on the media.
This is happening in both big and small ways. The big ways are the lawsuits and threats. The small ways are how the Trump White House is, day by day, changing the composition of the journalists who can question the president and his spokespeople.
so fuckin sick of this moron, and his group of morons. wish his cook would do like the old kings cooks would do
The last episode of John Oliver before the election last year he made a plea to anyone undecided or not planning to vote to consider, if nothing else, how nice it would be to not have to hear about him everyday. I think about that world a lot
His sodium levels are 10% less than a lethal dose. I bet his ankles are as big as cats.