I think the hypocrisy reaches its climax when Mr Trump talks about fighting the fake news, yet uses a story from Fox News as his source in one of his speeches.
He makes our (Swedens) prime minister look like a pro.
He makes our (Swedens) prime minister look like a pro.
He is probably Trump's closest equivalent in any Western country over the past decades: large personal fortune, mishmash populist agenda, media obsession, self-branding as an outsider who dares speak the truth... And Berlusconi's legacy is not much to celebrate. Italy is objectively worse off compared to its peers than it was 20 years ago. Winning elections doesn't mean anything on its own, but Trump is still in campaigning mode.
It resisted him in the primary, but it was critical in the general election, providing the voter information that the campaign used to target their advertising and such (The Trump campaign spent more on digital ads than the Clinton campaign, they targeted those ads a great deal).
Somehow, in Trump's case, there was no such thing as bad publicity.
Somehow, in Trump's case, the media was able to find a false equivalent in some other candidate every single time.