Just as wolves surround a potential victim who appears wounded, the journalistic pack is snapping at the heels of Donald Trump, and no amount of howls of rage and fuming criticism by him or his press secretary, Sean Spicer, is chasing them away.
And the more he complains about the media being unfair, dishonest, biased, etc., the more the media wolves broaden their search for falsehoods and misleading claims that he insists are true despite offering no evidence to back up his assertions.
Meanwhile, the Trump presidency is losing whatever support it had from congressional members of his own party, especially those who may face re-election in the future.
Rather than focus on maintaining, modifying and rebuilding his base of support among government officials, this president continues to stress his own rightness, demanding support for whatever he says on no other ground than that he says it.
In short, he has been caught so many times crying wolf when he had widespread support that now when there really are wolves at the Whine House gate, no amount of yowling will make them go away.
Instead, he is being trapped in a web of lies of his own making.
Daily print and broadcast news media reports expose an increasingly wider net of falsehoods he has perpetrated to soothe his ego.
And given the choice of whom to believe, journalists or the viral virulence of the president's defensiveness, political, governmental and congressional leaders are opting out of the "alternative facts" offered by Trumpians and selecting the solid evidence reported in the news media.
Three cheers for the First Amendment, bastion of a free democratic republic
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