Donald Trump is an awful loser.

I am deebly self-conscious, and bad.

I think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself.

I think there are a good many Donald Trump voters who are sick of government as it is practiced in America and genuinely want to blow up the system and see what happens. They are stupid - or at least unwise - but not necessarily racist.

Is it really the right of the media to dictate to the president whom he will allow in his press conferences? That's tetchier. And then there is the added issue of whether it would be a service to their readers, and the country at large, for, say, the Washington Post to take itself out of the room -- meaning they don't have the ability to ask important questions the president is obliged to answer? I think that would be a mistake.

When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.

An editorial writer might consult a reporter to see what she thinks, if it is what she covers. But they are entirely independent.