Holman W. Jenkins Jr. Quotes

The dirty little secret the media doesn't want to admit is that Trump generates such good content that they can't help covering him even when they hate him.

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

Oftentimes the … media only partially quote what politicians say. This has prevented the public from understanding my true intentions. So now I am sending messages through Facebook and other networks directly to the public.

…Democrats are complaining that they can’t get their message out … because Donald Trump has blotted out the media sun. … The eclipse won’t end. The media has turned the Trump presidency into a phenomenon of constant self-absorption—their self-absorption in this one person. Donald Trump has become the biggest balloon in a political Macy’s parade of modern media’s own creation. They could let go of the ropes. But they won’t.

If hyperbolic political speech were outlawed, there’d be silence in America.

I don't get bothered by the media. There is nothing in the media that makes me lose any sleep at night.

There is nothing worse than a politician that gets defensive and starts attacking the media - and it always looks bad for the politician, because you sign up for this. You live by the sword, you die by the sword.

It's hard not to look at the road of the media and how the media is a big part of painting a picture for public opinion.

America can't stop talking about Donald Trump. Even if we want to look away, we just can't.

What a contrast, Trump is feisty but flexible. Obama, cool but rigid. But he had no reason to bend. The media already bought into his shtick. His giddy fan base ate up every white-coated lie.

The media will build you up in a hurry but then, just as fast, will bring you down.

I'd tell you whose brand was tainted is Donald Trump. I mean, this guy was tainted every kind of way you could imagine. I mean, no way in the world that Donald Trump is a champion of working people.

Donald Trump has fundamentally realigned American politics. It's time the media acknowledge this and give him the credit he deserves.

Donald Trump's whole candidacy from the time he started has been filled with myths by the media that he couldn't - he was not a serious candidate.

Tiger Woods has known Donald Trump... for many years, well before he became the president. He knows the true Donald Trump, not the one that the mainstream media tries to post up all the time.

When people voted for Donald Trump, they knew he wasn't an angel.

The media do strange things.

The rise of Donald Trump established a new ground zero for liberal media, requiring no pretence of balance - better yet, with a kind of political brain haemorrhage, everybody seemed to have lost the ability to be balanced.

Donald Trump's tweets attract ridicule from some. But clearly they communicate effectively with his millions of supporters.

I don't worry about being bothered by the media. Either I'm going to talk or not talk.

I've always had the media going against me every year.

What we've seen from Donald Trump has been so negative that nobody wants to be associated with that.

President Donald J Trump and the U.S. media appear now to be split by deep doctrinal differences - of the constitutional crisis kind. But, virtually up until the split, Trump and the media were as one - a perfect symbiosis.

My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.

The people may not be like that, but I think the media had a very dirty role in spoiling relations between us and India.