What the Press Still Doesn’t Get About Trump

What does the press still get wrong about Trump, and what do we just not get at all?

1. We forget what has always driven Trump: Gwenda Blair, author of The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders and a President
2. Trump. Won’t. Change.: Kurt Bardella, president and CEO of Endeavor Strategies
3. We still trust the polls too much: Helmut Norpoth, political scientist at Stony Brook University
4. ‘Trump is crazy’ has become a cliché: John McWhorter, associate professor of linguistics at Columbia University
5. We’re not only stuck in bubbles—social media is making them worse: Emily Parker, former chief strategy officer
6. We’re still ignoring the people who elected Trump: Matthew Continetti, editor in chief of the Washington Free Beacon
7. We’re falling for the ‘Trump exceptionalism’ trap: Nicole Hemmer, assistant professor of presidential studies at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia
8. We should take Trump’s tweets more seriously: Leah Wright Rigueur, assistant professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government
9. The media’s priorities are all wrong: Zeynep Tufekci, associate professor at the University of North Carolina School of Information and Library Science
10. We haven’t nailed the biggest story: Jill Abramson, former executive editor of the New York Times
11. The press is still biased against Trump: Mark Bauerlein, senior editor at First Things and professor of English at Emory University
12. Trump’s success depends just as much on what happens outside Washington: Jessica Yellin, senior fellow at the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy and former chief White House correspondent for CNN
13. Most people don’t care about Trump’s lies: Terry Sullivan, partner at Firehouse Strategies and campaign manager for Marco Rubio in 2016