Policy Archive

Let’s get this big caveat out of the way: Donald Trump probably isn’t interested in the minutiae of being president — that is to say the actual, everyday management of the most powerful state on earth.His cabinet will end up exercising far more power than any unelected body ever has in the U.S. But it’s worth examining what Trump himself has said, since we still believe in the public process of a democracy — if he’s said it out loud, it’s fair game.It’s clear Trump doesn’t like the media. He certainly doesn’t like media mergers. In the first 100 days of his presidency, he vowed to block AT&T’s proposed acquisition of Time Warner, arguing it “concentrates too much power in the hands of too few.”