Covering Trump is a challenge for White House reporters. It is true that he never stops talking, and so he provides the press with limitless fodder. But it is also true that he tries to intimidate reporters—­and, crucially, the people who own news organizations—­­in ways that are clearly dangerous to democracy. I reported on the presidencies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and though some stories displeased them and periodically made them angry, they responded with the self-restraint one traditionally associates with the presidency. Trump, by contrast, makes his feelings known in visceral and cutting ways, with the intent to humiliate and intimidate.