
No More Binge-Watching This White House Reality Show
Journalists have let themselves serve as showrunners for the president’s ongoing White House reality series. It’s time they dropped that role.
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Journalists have let themselves serve as showrunners for the president’s ongoing White House reality series. It’s time they dropped that role.
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