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Why Humanizing Trump Is America’s Addiction To Whiteness

Ezinne Ukoha
8 min readNov 19, 2018

Mainstream media tries hard to finesse the never-ending obsession with President Trump; but in the end, the failure lies in the distorted landscape of click, traffic and ratings, and how those elements have reduced once-worthy journalists into delivery men and women, who are helplessly committed to finishing a race that nobody wins.

Victorious White House correspondent for CNN, Jim Acosta, just recently had his press pass temporarily restored after being unceremoniously shamed by a rabid administration, that decided to use the reporter as a scapegoat during a particularly contentious and volatile news conference, that was staged at the East Wing of The White House, a day after the midterm elections.

The relationship between CNN and The White House has consistently been a bone of contention for main players; the president, White House press secretary, Sarah Sanders, and the president’s most trusted Counselor, Kellyanne Conway, whose situation is complicated by the nagging interference of a very outspoken critic of her boss — who also happens to be her husband.

Conway perfects the ever-loyal stance that’s able to dutifully explain the unexplainable without flinching. Sanders manages the press conferences with the absolute challenge of having to field an avalanche of inquiries without missing a beat…

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