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Matthew Gertz
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The president of the United States does not read books, but he does hear about them on his favorite television shows.

Left, Fox & Friends, 6:17 am
Right, Trump, 6:35 am
Note that Trump describes Wead as a "presidential historian," which is what Fox's chyron calls him.
Here's that quote about FDR.

Left, Fox & Friends, 6:18 am
Right, Trump, 6:51 am
Left, Fox & Friends, 6:20 am

Wead, citing a Newsbusters study on broadcast network reporting, says "not even 1 percent of the stories cover the economy."

Right, Trump, 6:56 am
Left, Fox & Friends, 6:47 am
Right, Trump, 7:48 am
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The digital journalism model is crumbling. Vultures circle one of the largest newspaper chains. And this is all happening under the backdrop of a largely good economy.

This is a crisis. And when the next recession hits, all hell is going to break loose.
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President Trump understands the purpose of a Fox & Friends question mark.

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This was the lead story this morning.

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Moving on to the tweets from yesterday, looks like the president spent a good part of MLK Day live-tweeting Fox.

Left, Fox, 4:27 pm

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Right, Trump, 4:57 pm
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1. President Trump is asking Democrats for a bailout.

He has created a series of situations that are toxic for him politically, and wants Democrats to help him out of them -- and throw in his top campaign promise to boot.
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3. The shutdown is disastrously unpopular for Trump. And the DACA and TPS situation doesn't promise to become better for him. Those people are among the most sympathetic immigrants he could try to forcibly remove. That would become a political nightmare quickly.
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