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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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GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN - OCTOBER 30: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump holds a press conference from inside trash hauler at Green Bay Austin Straubel International Airport on October 30, 2024 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. With less than a week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground states of North Carolina and Wisconsin.   Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by CHIP SOMODEVILLA / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Donald Trump holding a press conference from inside a trash hauler at Green Bay Austin Straubel International Airport in Wisconsin on Oct 30.

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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.

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