Democracy Dies in Darkness

Opinion George Conway: Trump went ballistic at me on Twitter. Here’s why he reacts with such rage.

May 6, 2020 at 6:16 p.m. EDT
President Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)

Americans died from covid-19 at the rate of about one every 42 seconds during the past month. That ought to keep any president awake at night.

Not Donald Trump.

Just days ago, the president flipped out at a detailed New York Times article that described how he watches television at all hours, obsessed about how he’s covered in the news. As though to prove the story’s thesis, Trump rage-tweeted that it was a “phony story” and that the media would say “Anything to demean!