To some, Trump’s tweets are a distraction from real news. To others, they’re the president’s most direct form of communication with the world.
Dear readers:
It’s a perpetual question for the reporters who cover President Donald Trump: How to handle his tweets?
If you cover every blip and blast Mr. Trump sends out into the Twittersphere, some say, you are allowing the president to dictate the news cycle – and distracting attention from real events by hyping phony controversies.
If you ignore his tweets, however, some say you’re “normalizing” behavior that is at best unpresidential, and at worst alarming.
This morning, Mr. Trump lashed out at George Conway, the husband of presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway, calling him a “stone cold LOSER & husband from hell.
