Trump vs. the Press: A Small-Town Boy (Well, Sort of) in Washington – The New York Times

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Trump Ruled the Tabloid Media. Washington Is a Different Story.

Donald J. Trump was no stranger back in the day to the art of news management. But even that did not seem to prepare him for the capital press corps.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/25/us/politics/trump-press-conflict.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

He’s not in Manhattan anymore. This New York-iest of politicians, now an idiosyncratic, write-your-own-rules president, has stumbled into the most conventional of Washington traps: believing he can master an entrenched political press corps with far deeper connections to the permanent government of federal law enforcement and executive department officials than he has.