[nathanbedford]

You say:

Trump wasn’t build by the media, if anything, Trump built the media that has been covering him.

I say in the second sentence of the vanity:

That is not to deny that he is adept at manipulating the media, that is perfectly plain.

You say:

It’s reasonable to not bother wasting time with an argument built on a false premise.

I say,

It is a false technique of argument to create a false premise and then knock that strawman down because it is a "false premise."

[Balding_Eagle]

If you lead with a false statement, don’t be surprised if readers don’t bother reading further.

I didn’t.

There are way too many reasonable arguments to be made both against and for trump to bother with those which appear built on erroneous assumptions.

[HiTech RedNeck]

SO you cutely deny you made a false premise.

Either Trump is a creation of the media or he is not. You cannot pussyfoot around with juicy sounding claims not all of which can be simultaneously true.