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Welcome to  Stop the Presses , a weekly newsletter about how right-wing extremism has exploited the weaknesses in American journalism and what we can do about it. Media must cover — not cover up — Trump’s unfitness The president benefits from the failure to focus on his broken brain Mark Jacob Oct 27 People in the media are journalists, not psychologists. They’re used to covering facts, not fantasies. So they don’t know how to react when Donald Trump says or does something that’s mentally deranged. Too often, they try to fit it into a rational frame of reference even though it’s irrational. This sanewashing has been going on for a long time, and   I’ve written about it before . But it keeps getting worse, and the mainstream media keep making the same mistakes in their coverage of the King of Crazytown. Trump’s bonkers behavior is so unrelenting that each new incident seems to push an old one out of our memory. But let’s remember that just over a week ago, Trump posted an AI vi...