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On June 5, Trump tried to talk away a huge anti-Trump demonstration in London by calling it fake news, even as the state visit was being defined by the scale of the backlash. The reaction undercut the White House’s attempt to sell the trip as a triumph and made the president look oddly detached from basic reality. For a leader who likes to brand himself as the master of optics, this was a very public own-goal.
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On June 5, Trump tried to talk away a huge anti-Trump demonstration in London by calling it fake news, even as the state visit was being defined by the scale of the backlash. The reaction undercut the White House’s attempt to sell the trip as a triumph and made the president look oddly detached from basic reality. For a leader who likes to brand himself as the master of optics, this was a very public own-goal.