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Will Trump continue to pull from a pro wrestling playbook?

  • Written by R. Tyson Smith, Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, Muhlenberg College
imageDonald Trump and WWE wrestler Bobby Lashley shave the head of CEO Vince McMahon during Wrestlemania 23 in 2007.Carlos Osorio/AP Photo

During a panel at Harvard on March 7 on press and the presidency, political journalist Jessica Yellin described Donald Trump’s conflict with the press as “WWF, media edition: In one corner, Donald Trump,...

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