To the Media:

Stop covering President Trump’s daily activities and decisions. We are numb to their predictability and redundancy. I could write the next ten days’ headlines concerning his knee-jerk presidency and be pretty close. We know seventy-five percent of Americans disagree with most of his current obsessions, including Greenland, Iran, and Venezuela. They are concerned about affordability, a word Mr. Trump apparently thinks was only recently invented. They are concerned about housing prices and the cost of milk.

Do this instead: Cover congress. Obviously, most of them have gone silent since they know that to suffer the wrath of Mr. Trump is to risk unemployment, perhaps even an investigation, but not if all of them all at once stand up and say, “No more.” Report about that. Ask them the questions instead of the president. Ask congressional leaders if they agree with the possible invasion of Greenland and the likely subsequent chaos at the United Nations, in NATO, and the inevitable explosion of prices for everything from Europe, and make that front page top of the hour news instead of comments from Mr. We’ve Heard it All Before. Ask them how they feel about the president’s threats to invade Iran if they continue to badly treat the protestors while he defends ICE’s motives, including shooting a woman in the face as the agent called her a “fucking bitch.” Ask congress where they stand on that matter. Find out why they are not proposing bills with an overwhelming majority to avoid veto that state any action by the military must be approved by Congress. Ask them if they are aware that their constituency has ceased liking the president’s actions to the point of a supermajority. Make it front page news that in this republic that the overwhelmingly majority of actions taken by the president are only possible because of either their approval or their silence. Don’t let them be silent. Don’t let them avoid the truth. Expose their cowardice at supporting anti-American policies from the American president because they’re afraid of losing their civil servant job.

Make it clear that the American public lays the blame for all of this at their feet, and every single morning be at their doors asking them again, and again, how they are letting him get away with his unprecedented weak-minded plans. Remind them that when a bully’s disciples refuse to go along with the demands and threats, the bully stands alone and inevitably folds, and his supporters will move quickly behind someone else to stand in unity. Then, in the form of a question, somehow tell them that if a handful of republican leaders stand against the president, they will likely suffer childish ridicule and adolescent belittling, followed by a public shaming and a loss of office. But if a majority of them stand against the president, if they all decide that enough is enough, their followers will abandon Mr. Trump and stand behind them, even if simply because they don’t want to appear to go down alone.

This is psychology 101, but you are too misfocused on the hype and vacuum created by the president. Make it your mission to control the conversation since you have from Edward. R Murrow to now. And today’s headlines should no longer begin with “Here is what the president did today.” It must begin, “Here is what congress did not do today.”