With Donald Trump set to return to the White House in a few short weeks, journalists are already thinking out loud about how they’ll cover his second term. These reflections amount to a tacit admission that the methods of covering Trump’s first term can’t be repeated, even if professionalism keeps journalists from using phrases like “we screwed the pooch sideways” or “we dumped our credibility in a port-a-potty and then lit that port-a-potty on fire.” To be fair, it’s hard to know how to cover Trump, since he can’t seem to put on his socks in the morning without doing 10 to 12 things that would doom any other administration.
Jeff Maurer is a former senior writer for ‘Last Week Tonight with John Oliver’ and writes the political comedy Substack I Might Be Wrong.
