He bypassed the press. He didn’t need them. Twitter won him the presidency, as did his going from grungy place to grungy place and making promises to be a civil servant to the dispossessed. The press did the rest by helping him cultivate a presence for decades. The Left are having a tough time coming to grips with being beaten by a simple strategy because they don’t see the obvious because they are over thinkers by nature. He beat the press at their own game by ignoring them, and then turning them into his own fodder to amuse his core who already hate the media. The more vitriolic the press becomes, the bigger villains they seem. To him, it must be like shooting fish in a barrel.
