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  • When the press fights the president, the president wins 

    Anthony Zurcher, BBC News|Nov 19, 2018

    The East Room of the White House with its vaulted ceilings, ornate chandeliers and gold curtains – is the closest thing to a throne room the United States has. When set up for a presidential news conference, as it was on Wednesday morning, it is magisterial. The president is announced, and the doors to a long hallway swing open. He steps onto the podium, towering over reporters squeezed tightly into the wooden chairs before him. It feels a bit like an audience with a king. And on Wednesday, the king was angry. Donald Trump held this formal n...