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According to the media, Donald Trump could never become president. Now many are on a mission to prove he shouldn't be president. The Trump administration and the press are at war - and as in any war, the first casualty has been truth. Bestselling author Howard Kurtz, host of Fox News's Media Buzz and former Washington Post columnist, offers a stunning expos of how supposedly objective journalists, alarmed by Trump's success, have moved into the opposing camp. Kurtz's exclusive, in-depth, behind-the-scenes interviews with reporters, anchors, and insiders within the Trump White House reveal the unprecedented hostility between the media and the president they cover. In Media Madness, you'll learn: * Why White House strategist Steve Bannon told Trump he is in danger of being impeached* How the love-hate relationship between the president and Morning Joe hosts - Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski - turned entirely to hate* How Kellyanne Conway felt betrayed by journalists who befriended her - and how she fought back* How elite, mainstream news reporters - named and quoted - openly express their blatant contempt for Trump* How Bannon tried to block short-lived Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci - and why Trump soured on him* How Ivanka and Jared Kushner aren't the liberals the pundits want them to be - and why Trump tried to discourage them from joining the White House* Why Trump believes some journalists harbor hatred for him - and how some liberals despise his voters* How Trump is a far more pragmatic politician than the press often acknowledges (and how the press dismisses his flip-flops when he flops their way) * What Trump got wrong about Charlottesville - and how Steve Bannon predicted the debacle* How the media consistently overreached on the Russian "collusion" scandal* Why Trump actually likes journalists, secretly meets with them, and allows the press unprecedented access* Why Reince Priebus couldn't do his job - and the real reason he left the White House* How Sean Spicer privately berated journalists for bad reporting - and why he and Kellyanne Conway were relentlessly attacked by the mediaNever before has there been such an eye-opening, shocking look at what the White House and the media think about each other. It's not pretty. But it also makes for the most important political book of the year.