Media the enemy? Trump sure is an insatiable consumer
NEW YORK — Before most people are out of bed, Donald Trump is watching cable news.
With Twitter app at the ready, the man who condemns the media as “the enemy of the people” may be the most voracious consumer of news in modern presidential history.
Trump usually rises before 6 a.m. and first watches TV in the residence before later moving to a small dining room in the West Wing. A short time later, he’s given a stack of newspapers — including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Washington Post and, long his favourite, The New York Post — as well as pile of printed articles from other sources including conservative online outlets like Breitbart News.
The TVs stay on all day. The president often checks in at lunch and again in the evening, when he retires to the residence, cellphone in hand.