I think that what the papers failed to do was write the big story of the fact that Donald Trump wasn’t playing chess. It’s like the endless fact checking was a little bit like reporting on a chess match by saying, “Okay, well, she opened E2 to E4 and he knocked all the figures off the chess board. He knocked the bishop off the chess board and he knocked the knight off the chess board.” Well, just say it! Just say he was not playing chess!
He was totally not playing chess. He was ME, ME, ME-ing all the way to the throne of regulated chaos. And AMEN!, to the notion that journalists need to sit, observe, process and then utter. I mean, I don’t think most of them will…
Source: How Journalists Need to Begin Imagining the Unimaginable – ProPublica