One: Americans have lost faith in the press. In one poll last April, for the AP, an astonishingly low 6 percent of voters said that they possessed a lot of confidence in the media. He knows precisely how unpopular the media is; even as he rode the press to power like a rented mule, he beat it like a rented mule, too. At times, he’s opened the golden spigots of Trumpian charm a bit to provide access and scoops and interviews to favored outlets. But then he lashed out at BuzzFeed and CNN, seeking to divide the press corps (which he quickly did), and now someone in his inner circle has leaked to Esquire that Trump is going to kick the press corps out of its long-held perch in the White House.

Source: Huffington Post January 17, 2017 00:35 UTC