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Why pro wrestling is the perfect metaphor for Donald Trump's presidency

Source :   CNN Now Playing Trump posts anti-CNN... (CNN) On Sunday morning, President Donald Trump sent out a  tweet  containing video in which he pummels a person with a CNN logo as its head. The tweet was accompanied by these hashtags "#FraudNewsCNN #FNN." It's in keeping with Trump's broad theme of the media as "fake" and his more narrowly focused message of late that CNN is the worst of the bunch. (Sidebar: I'm not going to post the tweet here because, well, advocating violence against reporters is not something I want to give attention to.) In a statement, CNN called it a "sad day when the President of the United States encourages violence against reporters." "Clearly, Sarah Huckabee Sanders lied when she said the President had never done so," CNN's statement continued. "Instead of preparing for his overseas trip, his first meeting with...