Covering Trump

An insane press conference demonstrates that it's a hopeless task, so buckle in for four years of scurrying after nonsense.

Debates about how the news media should cover Trump on the campaign trail—where the stakes were presumably the election outcome—have now given way to debates about how to cover him as President (or for now, President-elect). The stakes now are, in a way, more concrete and serious, with actual policy and action potentially backed by his Presidential powe…