--- title: "3 Cover Trump Quotes by 3 authors" description: "Browse 3 Cover Trump quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Cover Trump sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e65/katy-tur-10146_friendship_you-have-to-understand-something-about-p_962591.jpg" --- > [“you have to understand something about presidential elections in general. The politicians devise strategies and court donors years in advance. At the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katy-tur/you-have-to-understand-something-about-presidential-elections-in/) [Katy Tur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katy-tur/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e65/katy-tur-10146_friendship_you-have-to-understand-something-about-p_962591.jpg) > [“This is an egregious breach of journalistic ethics. It’s absolutely inappropriate, whether they consider themselves “journalists” or not. You don’t “act” the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/megyn-kelly/this-is-an-egregious-breach-of-journalistic-ethics-it-s-absolutely/) [Megyn Kelly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/megyn-kelly/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c9c/megyn-kelly-1440_fair-game_this-is-an-egregious-breach-of-journalis_1273412.png) > [It's so hard to cover Trump. What Trump says, what he feels, what he thinks changes from day to day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-fahrenthold/it-s-so-hard-to-cover-trump-what-trump-says-what-he-feels-what-he/) [David Fahrenthold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-fahrenthold/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aee/david-fahrenthold-8292_day_it-s-so-hard-to-cover-trump-what-trump-s_2673414.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cover-trump/#itemlist", "name": "Cover Trump Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“you have to understand something about presidential elections in general. The politicians devise strategies and court donors years in advance. At the same time, newspapers and networks carefully decide which reporter they’ll match with which candidate. Trump wasn’t part of anyone’s plan. For that matter, neither was I. Five days into my New York trip, while I was running an errand, I got a call from a friend at work. “Hey, Katy. Heads up,” the friend said. “Deborah Turness [my boss] is going to assign you to Trump full-time. [David, another boss] Verdi is going to call. If you don’t want to do this, you better figure out what you’re going to say to get out of it. Don’t let on that I told you, but get ready.” Anxiety. Indecision. Italy. My vacation with Benoît is in just over a week. On the other hand, as good as life can be in Europe, there’s also a lot of professional boredom. It would be nice to get some TV time. And New York is unbeatable in the summer. I hung up and paced the sidewalk. Then I called a friend from CBS. “They want me to cover Trump full-time,” I told him. 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The Des Moines Register’s journalists were banned from Trump’s campaign events because the paper’s editorial board had harshly criticized him. The Washington Post was later banned for similar reasons. So were Univision, the Daily Beast, and others. The message was clear: cover Trump “nicely,” and good things happen. Hit him too hard, and suffer the consequences. 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