News can be exhausting in the time of the Trump presidency: The screaming headlines. The tweets. The bickering on social media. The polemic from a conservative news site posted as a retort to the polemic from a liberal news site.

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Wouldn’t you like to get away from it all? That’s exactly what Farhad Manjoo, the Times’s technology columnist, set out to do. As you might expect, it was not easy. As Farhad notes, President Trump may be the most written about human ever — though a few religious figures would probably top his Q rating.

While Farhad’s week without news about Mr. Trump might have sounded as if it were an attempt to lower his blood pressure, there’s a larger point. The news media has added plenty to the overwhelming coverage, but President Trump may be the first major public figure to arise in the age of social media saturation. Even President Barack Obama entered the White House before Facebook was a household name.