Critic’s Notebook: Donald Trump Takes Aim at Meryl Streep — and We All Lose | Hollywood Reporter
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It hasn’t even begun, but the Trump presidency has always been about erasing lines.
If you’re a fan, you obviously feel like Trump has erased the boundaries between the people and their government and, through Twitter, the boundaries between the leader of the free world and the voters he’s speaking to.
If you’re less of a fan, it’s the boundaries between hate and respect, between verbal terrorism and civilized discourse, between competent professionalism and dangerous dilettante amateurism that are becoming increasingly hard to visualize.
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We’ve never had a president who wanted to be a TV and movie critic before, and we’ve definitely never had a president who used that desire to distract us from his presidency before.
We don’t have to let him. But here I am, taking the bait.
