Trump has played the press, at least the US press, from the very beginning.  And he is still doing it.  I gave up on the US press a long time ago and get my news from mostly overseas outlets (BBC, France24, El Pais and Al Jazeera).  Here is the article every news outlet should have written, but didn’t.  You will also note that until the day after the election all the media outlets had this election as “tight” or “close”.  It wasn’t.  Ever.

What’s missing from every story about Tuesday’s anti-Trump rout