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Donald Trump's Criticisms Of The Media
To many's dismay, the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump, was inaugurated on January 20th, 2017. The past forty four days of his presidency have been quite unconventional, in that Trump has taken to social media to connect and has taken to the news media to criticize. Trump’s media use is simply for personal gain and to further play on the popularity he gained during the election. However, his criticisms of the media our an attempt to convince the people that the media is telling lies to hurt his own reputation.

Donald Trump is a businessman not a politician. However, as Daniel Henninger explains in his article, Trump vs. Trump, “Despite the “resistance”, it also remains true that most Americans want the Trump presidency to
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