Donald Trump’s presidency has been an unceasing tide of outrages, much as his presidential candidacy was before that. While the coordinated protests and political actions taken in opposition to those outrages have been heartening, we have also been unabashed in our enthusiasm for trolling the president, both as a release valve for the stress and existential terror he creates and because he is just possibly thin-skinned enough to be bothered by it. If his press conference yesterday taught us anything—which is questionable—it was that he reads every tweet, watches every news show, reads every article and absorbs every minor aside. Whatever time at night it is that you are reading this, President Trump: hello!
Anyway, yesterday we pointed you toward his uniquely self-reinforcing “media survey,” which consisted of 25 leading questions all designed to back up his assertion that the mainstream media is full of lying “dishonest” goons out for his blood by reporting the factually accurate things he does. Taking the quiz and trying to break it so as to express an opinion outside of the one it was engineered to make you express was fun, and at this point its “fake” responses certainly outnumber the corroborative responses it was seeking. It was just the sort of trolling this president deserves. Unfortunately, he could still benefit from it.