Michael Mario Albrecht is Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, USA. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, USA, in Communication Studies. His published works include excursions into popular music, television, masculinity, politics, and the Olive Garden. In 2017, he taught one of the first college courses focused explicitly on Donald J. Trump. His first book is entitled Masculinity in Contemporary Quality Television (2015).

Still finding Trump to be ‘too much’ to handle? Not in this book. Trumping the Media puts media representations, alterations, and power relations related to the ex-President in one place, ready for a critical and cultural reading of an era yet-to-be gone by that remains to be understood in terms of the realities of today’s political, journalistic, and entertainment realms. This book is both accessible and deep.

• Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Politics and Electronic Media 2. Conservative Talk Radio and Shock Jocks 3. Reality TV, Professional Wrestling, and Entertainment as Reality 4. The President is Tweeting 5. 4Chan, Reddit, Far-Right Politics, and Insurrection 6. The Press as "Enemy of the People"—A Crisis of Epistemic Authority 7. Post-Truth, Fake News, and Postmodernism ConclusionBibliographyIndex

Michael Mario Albrecht is Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, USA. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, USA, in Communication Studies. His published works include excursions into popular music, television, masculinity, politics, and the Olive Garden. In 2017, he taught one of the first college courses focused explicitly on Donald J. Trump. His first book is entitled Masculinity in Contemporary Quality Television (2015).

Still finding Trump to be ‘too much’ to handle? Not in this book. Trumping the Media puts media representations, alterations, and power relations related to the ex-President in one place, ready for a critical and cultural reading of an era yet-to-be gone by that remains to be understood in terms of the realities of today’s political, journalistic, and entertainment realms. This book is both accessible and deep.

• Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Politics and Electronic Media 2. Conservative Talk Radio and Shock Jocks 3. Reality TV, Professional Wrestling, and Entertainment as Reality 4. The President is Tweeting 5. 4Chan, Reddit, Far-Right Politics, and Insurrection 6. The Press as "Enemy of the People"—A Crisis of Epistemic Authority 7. Post-Truth, Fake News, and Postmodernism ConclusionBibliographyIndex