Painting Trump as the victim of media bias is the worst kind of revisionist history

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2. There are copious examples of narratives and hostile postures to which Hillary Clinton has been subjected and Trump has not.

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3. The media have not mentioned any Trump story every day for over a year. (Hint: emails.)

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4. Trump has not been repeatedly asked why he isn’t likable, despite the fact that he has abysmal approval ratings.

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5. Trump is not routinely said to feel “entitled” to the presidency, even though he complains bitterly about being vetted.

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6. Trump has not been called overly ambitious despite being wholly unqualified nor has he repeatedly been said to be seeking a “coronation.”

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7. Trump has not relentlessly been told to smile more. Or less.

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8. Trump has not been said, on numerous occasions, to remind a member of the press or the GOP of a nagging spouse.

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9. There are not endless thinkpieces admonishing Trump that he needs to “humanize” himself.

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10. No one appears to be especially interested in how much his clothes cost. Or how often he wears the same jacket.

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11. There have not been countless stories about “low enthusiasm” for Trump.

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12. None of Trump’s wins have been widely described as “feeling” like a loss.

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13. I don’t believe anyone has ever accused Trump of seeming “over prepared” or “too wonky.”

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14. Trump has probably never had to read dozens of stories about how he is insufficiently inspiring.

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15. Trump has never issued a major policy statement which has been virtually ignored.

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16. Yet he is the one throwing a tantrum about how the media are trying to “destroy” him by influencing the public in his opponent’s favor.

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17. Even though most of the negative coverage he has received lately is as a direct result of *his own words*.

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18. Trump does not have a healthy relationship w/ facts. But this claim is laughable, even by his own rock bottom standards of credibility.

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19. And then you’ve got jokers like Joe Scarborough agreeing (!!!) with Trump that the media’s been unfair to him. https://t.co/FKGQiFua30

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20. Much of the corporate media, not to mention his own party, failed to seriously vet Trump until very late in the game.

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21. If Trump, or anyone else, feels like it’s a media pile-on now, that’s only because he largely got a free pass for 18 months.

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22. And there still, for example, hasn’t been a sustained drumbeat on releasing his taxes. It comes up; he bats it away with a lie.

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23. There simply hasn’t been relentless, daily pressure on him the way there has been on Clinton with her emails.

— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) October 18, 2016

24. And now that Trump’s experienced two whole weeks of daily coverage, generated by his own words, all he does is whine about it.

— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) October 18, 2016

25. What would Trump say if he’d been held to the same standards as Clinton by corporate media all along?

— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) October 18, 2016