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Why the US media struggles to cover Trump
Is it possible to be objective about an outrageous, litigious and popular president?
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Donald Trump holding a press conference from inside a trash hauler at Green Bay Austin Straubel International Airport in Wisconsin on Oct 30.
PHOTO: AFP
WASHINGTON – The impending Trump presidency is stirring up disquiet in the American media, which has still not quite figured out how to cover an unconventional political leader given to half-truths, wild exaggerations and impromptu threats.
A decade after he rode down the escalator in Trump Tower in New York in 2015, the US media has tried mightily to inject “normalcy” into Trump coverage.
