One year in, Donald Trump’s war on the press has become relentless
Some days it feels like a decade. Some days, even longer.
But it has been only one year. Just one year.
Tuesday marked the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump’s second term in the White House. And what a year it has been.
Where do we even start? Well, for this newsletter, we start with Trump’s assault on the media.
He has banned the well-respected Associated Press from certain events simply over his pettiness about the name of the Gulf of Mexico. He has sued (and threatened to sue) media organizations such as CBS, The New York Times and the BBC. His administration has kicked reporters out of the Pentagon for refusing to report on anything except the force-fed propaganda of the Defense Department. His administration has defunded public media and tried to gut the Voice of America. His appointees have tried to silence late-night talk show hosts over jokes.
Trump, himself, has consistently and constantly insulted individual reporters and the media as a whole whenever he sees coverage he doesn’t like.
That’s just a portion of Trump’s battle with the press.
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Whether it’s the Des Moines Register’s publication of an unfavorable election poll, a routine edit of a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, or the Associated Press’s decision in its authoritative stylebook to continue to use “Gulf of Mexico,” Donald Trump and the White House have used executive authority and legal reprisals in an effort to punish and suppress press coverage that runs contrary to the administration’s preferred narratives.
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