The Fake News Industry and Trump’s COVID-19 Diagnosis

President Donald Trump arrives at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center by helicopter, in Bethesda, Md., Oct. 2, 2020. Joshua Roberts/Reuters

Commentary

When Donald Trump campaigned for the presidency in 2016, he earned the ire and eternal enmity of the mainstream news industry by calling their product “fake news.” He has been made to pay for using that all-too-accurate term ever since his election.