If the goddamn media wouldn't scrutinize every single thing he does, people wouldn't have such low opinions of him.

I can't let this one slide... you do realize why he's being scrutinized don't you? It's not just because people don't "like" him. And it has actually been done to other presidents in the past there just wasn't any internet around then so the multitudes couldn't blast off at every notion.

Well, the main pres I was thinking of was Nixon (and, no, I am not directly comparing Trump to Nixon, but the hassling they get by the media, etc was/is similar, whether or not one thinks it's deserved).
Today all is worse (or the perception is worse), I can def agree on that... people are getting thinner and thinner skins and it's because of the manner in which the internet is being used. Everything getting blasted everywhere on Twitter, FB, etc just makes it that much worse and that's the reason why it seems like Trump takes more grief. Social media is new: it came to prominence well into Obama's first term and has steadily gotten worse ("bigger") since then. I still maintain that the state of things (politics, shootings, etc) is partially an optical because of all the random shit being reported as news and all the publicized grievances that follow this "news" around in virtual space. Up until I was in my mid-20s all anyone had was TV, radio, and the newspapers. You can't blast mass media events via those old school methods as effectively. Most of what's in the news is meant to manipulate the reader/viewer anyway. It's why I iked Nightcrawler so much: pretty much right on the money with its grim manipulation of the masses.

The only news site I read anymore is NPR. It's the only thing even close to objectivity that I can find.

politics suck balls worse than betting on cricket

says the peeptoad who is a moderate, unaffiliated voter

at least being doomed is a more or less tangible state of being...