Onion editor: Trump policies ‘feel like satire’

The Onion’s Editor-in-Chief Chad Nackers said that some of the Trump administration’s policies are hard to cover because they feel close to being satire, according to Politico.

“The other challenge about this administration is that so many of their policies and things, like for the EPA, they almost feel like satire,” Nackers said in an interview with Politico.

“You’re just cutting everything that would protect the environment or making it easier for people to pollute,” Nackers said. “That’s the kind of thing that you would in the past make jokes about.”

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Nackers said the country’s political divisions also make it difficult to cover Trump.

“We’re so divided in this country politically right now that I feel like people can be very dismissive if they think you’re doing a joke that’s critical of Trump. … On the other hand, I think overly left-leaning people can be too on board with anything someone says, not even an Onion thing,” Nackers said.

He also criticized the media for focusing on small aspects of the Trump administration that he argues aren’t worth giving much attention to.

“In a way, they’re doing exactly what he wants: freaking out about nothing,” Nackers said about the media covering Trump. “And that’s what’s been happening a lot in this country.”

“They’re freaking out about small things and they’re not listening to each other and realizing that a lot of things that people tend to disagree about aren’t that far apart and it gets caught up in being really emotional,” Nackers added.