Is anyone else concerned with the media bias against Trump (and presidents, in general, including Obama). The good things he's doing are being overshadowed by the negative news, which is...

You are absolutely correct. The media has actually become a huge joke in the last couple of years. I would never vote for Trump in a million years but the decline of the media may actually be worse than him becoming president in the long term

@OP: His current behavior is more than enough to dictate my opinion of his current actions. Asking the head of the FBI to pledge loyalty is the kind of thing that happens in tinpot dictatorships, not the so-called leader of the free world.

Seriously, what good things? I'm a big trump hater, but was looking favorably on his tax agenda, for example. But every day there's a new scandal, mostly self inflicted by this retard putting his foot in his mouth.

Anyway, I would really like to hear what OP thinks is a good thing he's done. The media's role is to speak truth to power. And quite honestly trump and the republicans just feed them material over and over again.

My opinion: trump was elected as a response to the first black president. A "whitelash" I think I heard it called. A similar thing will happen in 2018 and 2020: we're going hard to the left. I can see Bernie in 2020 happening.

Completely agree OP about the media bias but from a different perspective. Let's take the health care bill from the house for example.... the media and democratic leadership were saying people will die, said rape and sexual assault would be a pre-existing condition, told families with special needs kids they would lose coverage ... all of which is untrue and a spinning of the what ifs to a place simply not supported by the bill itself. Meanwhile, Aetna pulled completely out of the exchanges. The existing ACA cannot continue. The narrative and political spin hurts real people... causes them emotional turmoil and stress ... all in the name of political gain. I'm afraid that the media is becoming "the boy who cried wolf" and when the message is legitimate and important it doesn't matter anymore because they have been acting like they are in code red over nothings for years.

Yes!!!!

Are you serious.

Yeah P2 you wouldn't say that if your candidate had won. It's a slight overrepresentation and it's in place so that basically NYC, LA, Chicago, and SF don't decide elections on their own

They probably should. It would make life better for everyone in this country.

You're attitude is why the left lost. The lesson has clearly not been learned.

@P4: Further, the ACA "cannot continue" partly because the GOP and the Trump administration have sowed enough uncertainty that insurers can't justify the risk. The GOP also compromised the stabilization payments back a few years ago that would have helped. That's not to say the ACA didn't need real fixes, but blaming "the media" for what's happening isn't telling even most of the story.

I'm just waiting for this to be confirmed as someone trolling... 🤔

@PwC2💯💯💯 re: underestimating the depths of racism

The ACA would survive if states didn't intentionally reject the public expansions and sabotage the future payments promised by the federal government. Of course GOP can cry about it failing - they are forcing it to

Op I really want your argument to be true but can't trump ...

Hey EY4 a bill to minimize lobbying is actually a huge step in the right direction. I actually didn't know about that until you said it because who's reporting on it?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/28/us/politics/trump-toughens-some-facets-of-lobbying-ban-and-weakens-others.html

P2 - I disagree. I don't have a problem with the media coverage, but that popular vote hold no weight. There's no way to know how many people didn't vote or voted differently in NY, CA, MS, AL or any other state with an overwhelming party majority. We have an electoral college system and we live with it. To say is election was illegitimate is unfair and invalid.

EY1, I refuse to always accept that democratic decisions will be the right ones, but I will concede there is not a better way of making decisions. My complaint (although I disagree with the result) wasn't about the result but about the way that the press presented the facts - I'm trying to stay on topic here. Case in point, the slogan on the bus about the NHS, which was then walked back the very next day after the result.

EY1, you really think the EU failed because of cultural differences between member countries? I find this really hard to believe. I think Brexit, and Trump, happened because of nationalism caused by globalization and immigration. Even Greece's debt didn't break the EU. Brexit occurred only after an intense wave of immigration.

Still waiting for someone to tell me something good he's gotten done....

And "good" is subjective. I might be a fan about his position on not federally funding the prosecution of marijuana related businesses; you may not be such a fan of it, I don't know. The point is that people are doing themselves a disservice by not forming an objective opinion on his actions as president, now, and allowing his past behavior to dictate their opinion of his current actions

A4 I think there's also danger in not accepting the choices of the democratic majority as in Brexit. The people voted to leave the EU and that's what happened. Is it so wrong that a country wants to be independent? The EU was a terrible idea because it failed to take into account legitimate cultural differences even though it improved the margins of global business