Do you really think that Trump and his billionaire cronies don’t have the media under their thumb?
I don’t think there’s anything left in the U.S. that could even be called a free press, and the major social media platforms—as well as, now, the AI cloud providers—are completely controlled by billionaires who, out of sheer opportunism, belong to the Trump camp anyway.
The fact that the Orange One is still in such a bad spot seems to me to be simply due to the fact that he’s such a completely unscrupulous monster. I mean, he’s mentioned thousands of times in the Eppstein Files alone and allows himself to be bribed as openly as is even conceivable.
The fact that he’s still in office at all borders on a miracle and is probably only conceivable in the land of unlimited possibilities.