US media should start asking Trump real questions: Analyst

The American media need to end their speculative stories aimed at “demonizing” President Donald Trump and start asking him serious questions about the country’s future under his presidency, says a political analyst in New York.

Don DeBar made the remarks while discussing recent reports that claim the new Republican president is struggling to deal with the challenges that come with running the White House.

Politico reported Friday that Trump’s mood has switched from surprise to anger after facing the fact that he cannot run the government like his business empire.

The report cited nearly two dozen people who have spent time with Trump in the three weeks since his inauguration on January 20.

They said Trump has become particularity frustrated with the massive federal bureaucracy, including congressional delays over his cabinet nominations and legal battles holding up his controversial executive orders.

During his presidential election campaign, the billionaire businessman sold himself to voters as being uniquely qualified to fix the nation’s ailments.

The people interviewed describe the White House as a tense workplace where job duties are unclear, morale among some staff is low, internal conflict is extensive and exhaustion is running high.

DeBar said the story sounded more like another attempt by anti-Trump media to distort his image.

“The American media like to create characters for people to understand whatever message that is being conveyed,” he told Press TV on Saturday.

Trump’s background as a reality TV star served as an asset for him when he entered the presidential race in 2015 and major media outlets found a great deal of entertainment value in covering his campaign, DeBar argued.

However, when he became “a serious candidate and particularly, when he started to challenged some of the neocon and the neoliberal assumptions about foreign policy, domestic policy, trade policy and these different things, then they went to trying to demonize him,” he explained.

“Now there is a plethora of psychiatric diagnoses that offer he is narcissistic, he is compulsive, he has got the borderline personality disorder,” DeBar added.

“It is all speculation and in a way perhaps even psychological warfare being conducted against the administration,” the analyst said.

DeBar argued that the media were refusing to accept the lesson behind the election season that they were “less popular than Trump” regardless of how much they claim he is unpopular.

“I would ignore this entire issue and deal instead with policy, like will there be war? Will there be jobs for American workers? And things like that,” he concluded.

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