It's only been four months since Trump officially took office,?? ??? ?? but for the journalists forced to cover him for the past two years, it has been centuries.
Take a look at how some of America's most telegenic pundits and personalities have aged since the election. The president's war on the media has been successful in one key aspect: he is slowly pushing these people towards death.
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Now, they're forced to cover a covfefe president who doesn't believe that climate change is real but does believe that Frederick Douglass is alive. So.
Just take a look at 'em (with, cough, cough, maybe a few marks ups by our photoshop editor).
1. Van Jones' pearly whites are crumbling to a pile of dust before our very eyes
Credit: haley hamblin/mashable composite/getty images 2. Ezra Klein from Vox will retire from the company to join the undead
Credit: haley hamblin/mashable composite/getty images 3. Shep Smith from FOX celebrated twenty of his own birthdays in one year
Credit: haley hamblin/mashable composite/getty images 4. Grandma Maddow just announced she'll be moving to MSNBC's coveted early bird time slot
Credit: haley hamblin/mashable composite/getty images 5. CNN's Jake Tapper recently received an award for "Saddest old man of the year"
Credit: haley hamblin/mashable composite/getty images 6. MSNBC's Can-no-longer-feel-Joy Reid
Credit: haley hamblin/mashable composite/getty images 7. Chris Hayes is expected to leave MSNBC to work on restoring his local library's toy train collection
Credit: haley hamblin/mashable composite/getty images 8. Don Lemon is now 50% human, 50% limestone rock
Credit: haley hamblin/mashable composite/shutterstock 9. Anderson Cooper is a handsome immortal and is therefore unaffected by the Trump presidency
Credit: haley hamblin/mashable composite/getty images President Trump: will you leave no skin fold unwrinkled?
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