There has been a lot of speculation if Trump is a racist. I don't know for sure, but he is reveling in the coverage he is getting in the media. That is his goal, to get people stirred up on both sides so they don't deal with the real issues. They spend so much time talking about what he said that they do not see what he is doing - classical magician - misdirection.
According to Wikipedia:
In Internet slang, a troll is a person who starts quarrels or upsets people on the Internet to distract and sow discord by posting inflammatory and digressive,[1] extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the intent of provoking readers into displaying emotional responses[2] and normalizing tangential discussion,[3] whether for the troll's amusement or a specific gain.
Well Trump's Tweets certainly fit the description.
The question is, what do you do about it? I thought the best thing was to call him out, line by line and show the falsehoods. The problem is after over 10,000 false statements, there is too much time wasted making corrections.
So here is what I think the media should do - take a page out of Seinfeld, just say when quoting the President for example: He said "Yada, Yada, Yada." Because nothing he seems to say has any value whatsoever - so why give him attention? He is just like a toddler throwing a tantrum.
The most important rule - don't feed trolls!
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