A president’s actual responsibilities to the United States will have been glossed over by the media in the same way that it glossed over its own. Zzzzzzz!

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What you will also notice when you wake up is that you are floating in a tide of brackish water next to your wrecked house in your deserted community, in 117-degree heat on a “freakishly” warm day. Freakish days will be the only kind left, because your media missed one other story while distracted by Donald Trump’s endless stream of shiny, furry or curious tweets. An “in-other-news” story like the fact that temperature records are now being shattered on a yearly basis, or how climate change is beginning to resemble a runaway train.

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How many big headlines were there that temperatures in 2016 were alerting us to the tipping point of catastrophe? How many months did you see devoted to in-depth coverage of this at-hand crisis? Weeks? Days? How many round-table discussions were convened on cable news, where all the panelists were science and policy experts in this area, examining what critical responses were still possible?

No, instead there were more endless days of the ever-present TV warbling heads, doing their best to put on their serious faces while pawing through the topic of how Trump is turning media communications all topsy-turvy!

Yes, you will have missed all of that if you sleep through it, but chances are that you will not be asleep for the next 20 years.