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Article snippet: There are a lot of insights to be drawn from the latest media maelstrom involving President Trump: about his sensitivity to criticism, his impulsivity, the way he talks about women and the ease with which he can still hurl the basest of insults. But the episode is also a striking example of how a presidency born of television lives there still, no matter what else might be going on In Real Life (IRL, as the internet calls it). It’s a cable news-Twitter presidency. So is it any wonder that one of the great, early standoffs of the new administration is not between the president and Congress or the president and a foreign leader, but between the president and the hosts of a morning news show? As one of those hosts, Joe Scarborough of MSNBC, told me on Friday, “He should be a lot more worried about NATO and building a relationship with Angela Merkel than he is with cable news hosts.” People close to the president will tell you that in fights like this one, his anger doesn’t stem from the criticism aimed at him, but from the fact that it comes from prominent people he once considered friends. That’s going to be hard to avoid given that his relationships with the nation’s top news people started when they were his fellow New York media fixtures, not national journalists covering him as the president. No relationship better exemplifies the way Mr. Trump lives and breathes the political-media environment than the one between him and the hosts of “Morning Joe,” Mr. Scarbo... Link to the full article to read more