這真是精英與草民的對抗。
很多都表態了，據《國會山The Hill》統計，主流媒體大大小小沒有一個支持淳樸（Donald Trump）：
Newspaper
| 2016 | 2012 | 2008 | |
| USA Today | Not Trump | Will not endorse | Will not endorse |
| The Wall Street Journal | |||
| The New York Times | Clinton | Obama | Obama |
| Los Angeles Times | Clinton | Obama | Obama |
| New York Post | Romney | McCain | |
| The Mercury News | Obama | Obama | |
| New York Daily News | Clinton | Romney | Obama |
| The Chicago Tribune | Johnson | Obama | Obama |
| Newsday | Romney | Obama | |
| The Washington Post | Obama | Obama | |
| Chicago Sun-Times | Clinton | None | Obama |
| The Dallas Morning News | Clinton | Romney | McCain |
| The Denver Post | Obama | Obama | |
| Los Angeles Daily News | Romney | Obama | |
| Orange County Register | |||
| Houston Chronicle | Clinton | Romney | Obama |
| The Philadelphia Inquirer | Obama | Obama | |
| Star-Tribune (Minneapolis) | Obama | Obama | |
| Tampa Bay Times | Obama | Obama | |
| The Star-Ledger (Newark) | Obama | Obama | |
| Honolulu Star Advertiser | Obama | Obama | |
| The Boston Globe | Obama | Obama | |
| The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | None | Obama | |
| The Arizona Republic | Clinton | Romney | McCain |
| The Seattle Times | Obama | Obama | |
| Las Vegas Review-Journal | Romney | McCain | |
| The Oregonian | None | Obama | |
| The San Diego Union-Tribune | Clinton | Romney | McCain |
| The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) | Obama | Obama | |
| San Francisco Chronicle | Clinton | Obama | Obama |
| Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | Romney | McCain | |
| St. Paul Pioneer Press | Clinton | None | None |
| Detroit Free Press | Obama | Obama | |
| Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | None | Obama | |
| The Sacramento Bee | Obama | Obama | |
| The Tampa Tribune | Romney | McCain | |
| Fort Worth Star-Telegram | Romney | Obama | |
| The Kansas City Star | Obama | Obama | |
| St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Obama | Obama | |
| The Salt Lake Tribune | Obama | Obama | |
| Investor’s Business Daily | Romney | McCain | |
| The Baltimore Sun | Clinton | Obama | Obama |
| Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Obama | Obama | |
| Orlando Sentinel | Romney | Obama | |
| Sun-Sentinel (South Florida) | Clinton | Romney | Obama |
| The Record (Bergen County, N.J.) | Obama | None | |
| The Indianapolis Star | None | Split | |
| Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | Romney | McCain | |
| The Buffalo News | Obama | Obama | |
| The Columbus Dispatch | Romney | McCain | |
| Austin American-Statesman | Obama | ||
| San Antonio Express-News | Clinton | Obama | McCain |
| Miami Herald | Obama | Obama | |
| The Charlotte Observer | Clinton | Obama | Obama |
| Omaha World-Herald | Romney | McCain | |
| The Courier-Journal (Louisville) | Obama | Obama | |
| The Virginian-Pilot | |||
| Hartford Courant | Obama | Obama | |
| The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, Calif.) | Romney | McCain | |
| The Cincinnati Enquirer | Clinton | Romney | McCain |
| The News & Observer (Raleigh) | Obama | Obama | |
| The Oklahoman | Romney | McCain | |
| The Detroit News | Johnson | Romney | McCain |
| The Providence Journal | Obama | Obama | |
| Deseret News (Utah) | |||
| The Advocate (Louisiana) | |||
| Richmond Times-Dispatch | Johnson | Romney | McCain |
| Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester) | Obama | Obama | |
| The Fresno Bee | Obama | Obama | |
| The Blade (Toledo) | Obama | Obama | |
| Dayton Daily News | Obama | ||
| The Tennessean | Romney | Obama | |
| Tulsa World | None of the above | Romney | McCain |
| Arlington Heights Daily Herald | Romney | Obama | |
| Asbury Park Press | Obama | Obama | |
| The Des Moines Register | Obama | Obama | |
| The Commercial Appeal (Memphis) | |||
| Boston Herald | Romney | McCain | |
| The Palm Beach Post | None | Obama | |
| The Times of Northwest Indiana | Romney | McCain | |
| Albuquerque Journal | Romney | McCain | |
| Florida Times-Union | Romney | None | |
| Wisconsin State Journal | Romney | None | |
| Arizona Daily Star | Obama | Obama | |
| The Post & Courier (Charleston) | |||
| The News Journal (Wilmington) | Obama | Obama | |
| Akron Beacon Journal | Clinton | Obama | McCain |
| LNP (Lancaster, Pa.) | |||
| Worcester Telegram & Gazette | Romney | Obama | |
| Lexington Herald-Leader | Obama | Obama | |
| El Paso Times | Clinton | Obama | McCain |
| Knoxville News Sentinel | Obama | ||
| The Morning Call (Allentown) | |||
| Rockford Register Star | Obama | Obama | |
| New Haven Register | Obama | Obama | |
| The News Tribune (Tacoma) | Obama | Obama | |
| Chattanooga Times Free Press | |||
| The Times-Picayune (New Orleans) | None | Obama | |
| Daily Breeze (Torrance, Calif.) | Romney | Obama | |
| Long Beach Press-Telegram | Romney | Obama |
支持克林頓（Hillary Clinton）的有17家（可悲，也不多，但還沒過時，可以想象《華盛頓郵報》自然會支持克林頓）。
要了解淳陣民眾心態，讀讀我的文章：
今天《大西洋月刊》實在忍不住了，“到了曆史關鍵的一刻”，不能坐著不動，發出“反淳挺克”聲音。
《新聞周刊》（記者Kurt Eichenwald）沒人指責淳樸逃稅，隻是淳粉覺得世界不公平，這麽多人不交稅，得在自己的腦子裏找個地方記記“自己的領袖也一般黑”。然而說淳樸生意手腕過人一等，意淫而已。Kurt Eichenwald揭露淳企（Trump Corporation）黑的長文，讀讀我的媒體真的給淳樸動真格了嗎？
這是它159年第三次公開擁護一個總統候選人。
Against Donald Trump
For the third time since The Atlantic’s founding, the editors endorse a candidate for president. The case for Hillary Clinton
For the third time since The Atlantic’s founding, the editors endorse a candidate for president. The case for Hillary Clinton
不過淳陣鐵杆不過選民的三成，據大家認可的估計，最後至少會有40%投淳樸的票，但大概難過45%。（注：即使如此，他也有可能當選，因為克林頓可能得票更少。）也就是說“精英與草民”並不是“全國老百姓”，但數目還是巨大，沒人能忽視，不論誰執政，他們的要求必須得解決，願望得以實現，否則國家無法治理。
《大西洋月刊》的聲明也顯得進退兩難，第一前提不是“支持克林頓”，而是“反對淳樸”，盡管克林頓“非常稱職”，但“個人缺點很多”。不知道主編們多少晚上沒睡了。
The Atlantic has endorsed only three presidential candidates in 159 years. Abraham Lincoln (1860) and Lyndon B. Johnson (1964) were the first two
直到今天，159年以來《大西洋月刊》隻公開擁護過兩位總統候選人：林肯和約翰遜
“今天我們麵臨的處境跟1964能極其相近”，（Today, our position is similar to the one in which The Atlantic’s editors found themselves in 1964. We are impressed by many of the qualities of the Democratic Party’s nominee for president, even as we are exasperated by others, but we are mainly concerned with the Republican Party’s nominee, Donald J. Trump, who might be the most ostentatiously unqualified major-party candidate in the 227-year history of the American presidency）“堅決不能要淳樸”。
啊。
淳樸是建國227年以來最不稱職的候選人。
《大西洋月刊》的態度與幾天前《今日美國日報USA TODAY》的態度一樣，希望盡量不挑邊，但覺得到了“國家民族危險的時刻”：
USA TODAY's Editorial Board: Trump is unfit for the presidency
The Editorial Board has never taken sides in the presidential race. We're doing it now
The Editorial Board has never taken sides in the presidential race. We're doing it now
是現有體製最大的得益者，是最善於利用體製機製的投機者《華爾街日報》Donald Trump Often Made Donations to State Attorneys General Reviewing His Business（《財富雜誌》評論）也是最大的騙子淳樸說話無不是“最好”，“最棒”，“世上無雙”，“獨一無二”，“絕無僅有”，“勝人一籌”，“高人一等”之類，但結果是個大忽悠的是家常便飯。“史無前例的優惠力度”，“低稅收，‘優雅生活’”基本上體製的寄生蟲
天將降大難於斯人也。
【參見】
【附錄】
Donald Trump’s former accountant says he’s not a tax genius and ‘didn’t understand the code’
“I did all the tax preparation. He never saw the product until it was presented to him for signature,”
“As far as I know, and that only goes through late ‘96, he didn't understand the [tax] code,” he added, in a separate interview with NBC News. “Nor would he have had the time and the patience to learn the provisions. That’s a lifetime of experience.”
I know our complex tax laws better than anyone who has ever run for president and am the only one who can fix them. #failing@nytimes
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2016
《美政機要》（Politico） How Howard Stern Owned Donald Trump
The Donald fancied himself a player in the ’90s, but the shock jock knew just how to play him. Now that’s back to haunt the candidate
重新裝扮的淳樸
舊
新
（“After consultation with Mr. Trump, we mutually agreed that a new jacket and the GREAT AGAIN title were more closely aligned with the book’s message”）
新罕布什爾州參議員之爭
淳樸育兒優惠政策
這是淳營最新推出的“育兒優惠政策”宣傳。淳樸在諸多政策上確實很左，出了共和黨的界線，共和黨也說不出話。“大減稅高福利”是淳樸贏得大眾的招數，建立在“信我的，經濟自然上去，我是上帝造出來的就業最大的締造者（原話：I’ll be the greatest president for jobs that God ever created），稅收滾滾而來”的假設上，沒錢，先借了再說，債務如何，誰管啊？
左右雙方大家一致認可的是，他的稅收育兒優惠政策是“越富得益越多”，跟他的減稅政策一般，完全不是為了藍領設的。
