We journalists shouldn't be offended by Donald Trump. “lici” is investigative journalism

Six months from the start of Trump presidency, I think we can now start seeing a recurring pattern. The US president is not currently at war with North Korea, Russia, China, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Turkey, Iceland, or the good people of Emilia-Rmagna, but sure is that Trump is at war with the media.

Almost every day from the White House, or Trump's hyperactive phone, there are offensive statements and posts. For a television presentation, he said he had “a low-intelligence quoner” and, with an even more severe batu, said he had once seen “resisted by lifting-u”.

He has launched strong attacks against him. New York Times and Washington Post, and has generally called the media <x0 enemies of the people”. And recently, he posted a video of the times when he was advertising at the Wrestling Championship, in which, the human head who was beating, was replaced with the log of CNN, the TV channel he hates most of all.

It was a joke, though a little fun, but American journalists, of course not kept for their sense of humor, have called it the instigation of violence against them, which can reach the death. All of this brings back to mind the arrogant words Trump had said a few years earlier to reporters. I would never kill”, he said, which in some way is a relief. But then, to make sure no one thought he was soft, he added: “But I hate him. And some of them are really lying and disgusting”.

The shock that this raises among Americans, besides its supporters, is huge. Not only because almost all the presidents of the last century have been torn to pieces to judge, or at least to agree with the media enough, but also because his attacks violate one of the unwritten principles of the US Constitution. This principle, until a while ago, was that politicians should take the media and journalists, because they claim they are.

Piedestale and Public Bathroom

Just as American citizens have the right to carry weapons, journalists have long gained access to a pedestal. Therefore, if there is a sector with a large ego the size of Mount Rushmore, it is the American media sector.

In Europe, journalists have a very different position -- as far as their social status is concerned, I would say they're at a crossroads, among public toilet servants, and those insurers who sell you a security policy that you don't really need.

As he once said to a Scottish friend, the great writer Walter Scott: “Your relationship to each newspaper would be shame and degradation. I'd rather you sell the poor gin than poisoned it like that.

We're famous as big drinkers, we're accused of having bad taste in our clothes and, as one Scottish writer once said, “we have a mouse's ability and a minimum literary capacity”: in other words, a little respectable, a diagnosis that we can generally accept, even be proud.

So unlike many, although I belong to the category that Trump is attacking, his statements do not touch me. I have ideas we don't share the same values. He's an entrepreneur, and of course he's not the type that has a lot of sympathy for journalists.

Nor is it the first US president to despise information tools. Grover Cleveland, first elected in 1884, declared: “I don't believe there's ever been a time when newspapers have been so deceptive and meskian, as today” Herbert Hoover refused to participate in press conferences “I don't intend to question you as a chicken thief”, said the most similar president in Trump's contempt for information tools, Richard NICson, told the assistants: “Press is enemy”

It's just that Trump comes out more often with these comments and more vulgarly, without counting on access to that modern megaphone, which is social networking. God knows how we'd judge Theodore Roosevelt today if he could've vented his anger in 140 letters.

I have little sympathy even for those who are constantly indignant at Trump's behavior. In their haste to show their virtues, being offended by what they say and do, they do not understand. He's always lived in a world of finances and real estate, where to always be aggressive, attack before they attack, and trust yourself, to the point that other mortals were suggested a long psychotherapy.

According to me, being an outsider in politics he has decided to do, in his public statements and above all on social networks, a cartoon of himself: bully, arrogant and almost psychopathic. It can also privately be the kind of guy that's bothering women, but, of all the other points, I think he's not that good. Instead of taking offense, journalists would do well to start methodically a good investigation. After all, in the case of Woodward and Bernstein, the Watergate case worked. /In Albanian by The world..