Americans way *less* informed about the important aspects of the president & executive branch's policies due to the existence of the White House Press Corps. They focus US on palace intrigue, allowing all presidents to avoid scrutiny of their fitness & policy cc/ @AshleyRParker
For his entire presidency, Americans were subjected to details of the political ups & downs of ObamaCare, how it affected Obama & midterm elections: not until the Republicans were 1 vote from repealing it, did anyone bother to explain to US what the actual policy did for US.
No matter what Trump did, the White House Press Corps was there for him, to normalize the action. "Fun" to Compare @OKnox (former president of WHCA) & @atrupar twitter threads covering Trump's 3/29/20 "Press Conference" 
Knox describes a very reasonable president making serious decisions during a crisis: he is both taking charge & properly delegating. This is same presser where Trump accused nurses of hoarding supplies, talks about gov't not having ammunition when he started, ...
Trump then goes on to blame Obama for Trump's lack of preparation & response to a pandemic that started 3 years after Obama left office, etc. You would not know any of this if you followed typical White House Press Corps reporting intent of normalizing president ...
Now the White House Press Corps is super sad that they get detailed, truthful, but *super boring* @PressSec explaining things to them, patiently answering their questions no matter how bad faith, rather than the super fun disinformation they used to spread for their buddy Trump.
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