Trump's Big CON: It's All About the Show, Explained, CONt.

"President Trump sees everything as a sales job.

He ran for president promising to be a dealmaker, but his skill set has always leaned much more toward boldfaced marketing than the quiet art of negotiation. That he was a dealmaker was itself a marketing slogan.

And as with the proverbial hammer, every problem Trump sees is a problem that simply requires a healthy dose of salesmanship. . .

Unfortunately for him, the national news media isn’t an arm of the Trump Organization’s communications shop, and it isn’t the New York Post’s Page Six, where celebrities are explored in minutiae but, at the end of the day, with love. . .

At some point Trump needs to come to terms with the fact that providing honest information to the media will work out better for him than obfuscating and misleading. . .

Maybe by actually embracing the role of the media in identifying problems and then working to fix those problems, the end result for Republicans and the president could be better?

Or maybe it’s easier to tweet about fake news."

Read the Washington Post, Trump does not understand what the role of the press is.