"The result, says one longtime Trump watcher, is that 'he's more sheltered from outside information than he ever has been before'. Like Saddam Hussein in his bunker as US forces approach the palace, he is being told that tariffs made the US rich in the 19th century and will do so again, that Elon Musk is popular and that the people are grateful to their leader, even when the economy is nosediving. Inside the info-bubble, any contrary voice can be dismissed, even if it requires acrobatics to do it."
Jonathan Freedland at The Guardian describes Donald Trump as "high on his own supply of fake news."
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