Donald Trump has posted a series of attacks on the media, this time basing his complaints on poll data published by major outlets. Trump is threatening even more lawsuits and insists that the “real” polls show his approval ratings are much higher. He wants publications to start posting those numbers instead.
There is a way to cover Trump’s performance in a non-biased manner. Sure, there are promises he made that he ultimately didn’t keep — like his mass deportation drive supposedly only targeting criminal immigrants. But Trump’s assessment of American allies in Europe, predicting they would keep entertaining his economic ideas until it was no longer tenable, has largely proven accurate. After an entire year of upending trade principles between the EU and the US, it’s only now that European powers are reconsidering their relationship with Trump’s administration.
