The Great Noticing

There are no rules for this stuff - Clinton was very popular when the entire press corps tried to destroy him (and whatever you thought of all of that, the coverage was unhinged) - but they are slightly more likely to feel emboldened to kick an unpopular president, especially if that president is a Republican.

The subtext of this article is Trump is nuts and tuned out. We haven't reached text, yet.

A surreal scene played out on Wednesday as the president led reporters through the White House ballroom to inspect its progress. He pointed out beams, talked about varieties of marble and generally shrugged off what had happened the night before as though it wasn’t the bloodiest political blood bath in this country since 1976 — as though he hadn’t just seen Texas turn blue.

Eventually journalists will start telling us what they know