Donald Trump is easily the worst US President we have seen.
He clearly has lost a lot of his cognitive skills probably through age, He is authoritarian and a bully. In this we see his attitude to the media.
This plays through to other countries. Whereas Trump is hamstrung by the constitution other countries leaders are not. Their attitude to the press is to put them in gaol on 'trumped up' charges
( pun intended).
Peter Grestor an Australian journalist noted this recently. The charges levelled against him in Egypt were laughable but a compliant judiciary did their job and he was put in gaol. He was only let out in part by pressure put on Egypt by the then President Obama.
Thus Trump has allowed dictators (and democratic ones such as those in Malaysia, Singapore, Turkey and elsewhere) not only to put journalists in gaol but also he has leverage to get them out. Indeed he would probably agree with them in gaol.
This is one of the ways Trump is dangerous. This all comes about because he feels he has to lie and thus attack the media on an unprecedented scale.
It also shows how much prestige the US has lost since Trump became leader.
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