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It's the Brian Laird Show. I back, everybody. I'm Tiffany Hansen, filling in for Brian, who is off for a few days.

Well, it has been a hectic couple of weeks since President Donald Trump returned to the White House for a second term.

Almost immediately, he flooded the news with a record-breaking number of executive orders, even just his first day in office.

There were calls to annex Canada, Greenland, and to retake the Panama Canal, and it doesn't end there lest we forget.

The president's call to rename the Gulf of Mexico, to pause, federal funding.

Some of this we've been talking about this morning, tariffs on Canada, Mexico, China, Elon Musk's takeover of the doge, shutdown of US AID, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

With all of this news, even journalists are having difficulty, parsing out, what actions deserve

wall-to-wall coverage, which stories are just a fleeting blip on the timeline. It's even more

complicated for news consumers trying to stay informed. Luckily, we have on the media's

Michael Lohinger with us to talk about some tips, both for

journalists and for you as well on how to keep track of all of this coming out of the Trump

administration, Micah, thank you so much for joining us. Hey, Tiffany, thanks for having me.

All right, let's just, Michael, let me just get your personal reaction. It has been, I think I can say, a fire hose of information. How are you feeling, dealing, et cetera?

Well, don't feel too bad for me. It is my job to follow the news. but it's been a ton. And that is not just something

that I'm feeling. I think it's something that everyone is feeling. And a point that we tried to make

on the show recently on on the media is that that's the point, that the overwhelmingness is the

strategy. And this is not new for the Trump administration. Back in

2019, Steve Bannon, who of course played a greater role in Trump 1.0 than now, but is still,

you know, a great strategist for the GOP. He told PBS that, you know, what he and the Trump administration were trying to do was flood the zone.

He said, and this is almost a verbatim quote, he said, the media is dumb and lazy.

We give them three things a day, they bite on one, and we get the rest done.

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