Hello and welcome to The Excer. I'm Michael McArthur, Vice President and group editor of the opinion sections of Gannett, the parent company of USA Today.

This is a bonus episode of The Excert, highlighting a new series from USA Today's opinion team that we're calling Forum.

It's a weekly space dedicated to showcasing views

from across the political spectrum on issues that Americans are starkly divided on. Today, you'll hear

from a few folks about media coverage of President Donald Trump. It's almost impossible to go through your day without getting some news coverage about what the president is doing.

The question we asked readers was this.

Is it too much?

Are you experiencing Trump fatigue?

I am tired of Trump coverage because there's more to life than listening to Donald Trump talk, and people talk about him.

Casey Green lives in Cornelius, North Carolina. He's 64.

He likes to cherry pick situations that don't have to do with our daily life. Take, for instance, that speech from the other night, he just

cherry-picked situations where, you know, young women were accosted by illegal aliens. And that,

you know, that happens all the time. I don't know, I don't know any statistics on it, but

he just happened to rail against aliens coming in, like, they're the only ones who do this one.

It's probably a very small percentage.

It just doesn't think things out.

The fact, he just doesn't, it's just very impulsive.

And if you don't think things out, then there are consequences later on.

His name always seems to be in the news, and I guess he feeds on that, and people

who surround him feed on that, just in general. When I started to watch the news when I

was, say, 12 years old back in the early 70s, they might have a whole newscast without talking

about the president, you know, the national news, like NBC Nightly News or whatever, Walter

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