The Donald Trump

Since past couple of months Donald Tramp has invaded a larger part of my psyche. He has become more familiar to me than my living grandfather. Be it in Facebook/Twitter newsfeed, Online broadcast or Print Medias and even coffee talk with friends; Trump seems unavoidable. It may not be wrong if I say ‘Donald Trump has become metaphor of Sex, everybody wants him’. During my weeks of attempt to stay away from Trump news, I noticed some amazing things. He has taken up guest appearance part on every media outlet of any domain, political or not. He is no longer just the News. In many circumstances, he acts like the medium, the ether through which all other news filters.

I still surf major news sites avoiding sections related to Trump, and spare maximum time on subject-specific columns inside international news sites; like science, economy or fashion. I went through social information sites like Quora and Reedit, and rarely login Facebook or Twitter, but also I often had to scroll past Trump-soaked posts. Even when I encounter non-Trump news, though, much of its context tends to intermingled with Trump news, so the overall outcome was something like trying to avoid the layer of oil from fried dish. What actually is a Donald trump phenomenon? Has he already become parenthesis of world politics? All presidents of United States were ubiquitous in media. But it is unlikely that no living person in history has ever reached the magnitude of popularity as nowadays Mr Trump.

In the digital age, there has been an amazing leap in how much to portray any international personalities — not just Trump. It sometime appears, and has given the impression this way for past months, that the US president remains at centre of every political incident. Trump news not only grabs International headlines in daily basic but also many national and local Medias around world couldn’t turn back to Trump coverage.

Whether this is because the mass media is fulfilling its responsibility or because news agencies are selling for TRP ratings and traffic is a matter of consideration. But one side of issue seems crystal clear: Trump is getting extra-large public attention than his previous counterparts. This hypothesis gets proven after a report published by the Harvard Kennedy School’s, which examines the media’s mania associated with all Trump things. Observing the first 100 days of his presidency, the research illustrate that almost more than 41% of all media coverage were about Donald Trump. And it accounts him three times more popular than any other US president.

Fortunately, there exist mechanisms by which readers can take control of Trump feeds without avoiding any news sites. For Google Chrome users, there is an extension called Trump Filter, widely downloaded from around the world. It functions to avoid article headlines and paragraphs of text that celebrates Donald Trump. Also, on Apple iOS there are several blockers to filter Trump.