I might call myself a nerd at certain things, and this would include politics. I love it! I watch TV shows about it. I watch movies about it. I watch 24-hour news, where during a normal college day, it’s on a hum. It’s addicting. I enjoy being educated. I know who my senators are and my representatives. I was proud to vote. I watched the Comey Testimony with a smile on my face for any side. I made some popcorn and I saw public servants do their job.

I understand for some people, this isn’t fun because more and more recently, I hate everything about politics. It is long and frustrating. It is tedious in all the wrong ways. It is less focused on laws and bills, and more focused on what the president has said and done.

I get it, you guys (and media), President Trump isn’t the smartest, and I will be first to say I don’t like him. I won’t pretend that he's my friend, but there is more going on.

So he tweeted today? Is that really new? Because he’s been doing that for a while. I know, like most people, it makes him sound stupid when he doesn’t proofread and uses hashtags. There is more to focus on, like his push for a travel ban or his policies when it comes anything dealing women.

Things that I have made me hate politics also includes the media, because they’re not blameless in this. I know because I’ve seen when they sensationalize something. They will spend forever talking about a story, but when it’s not that important and there are other stories. For people who truly like politics, they aren’t just focused on one station, but they have multiple sources telling them what’s going on. These stations are well researched and are not fake news, especially for the people who think that they are.

The media has this large obsession over President Trump and they try to get a one-up on him. The truth is he puts himself in a hole, so there’s no reason to go out of your way to do. If there’s actual news about what’s he doing or what he has tweeted, then the media is allowed to share, but if he just makes another stupid remark, it doesn’t matter too much.

Media focusing on President Trump allows other things to slip through cracks, like things we actually care about. Examples of this are health care and travel. These things affect us far more than what President Trump tweeted about with Hillary Clinton. It would real news if he said something nice about her. Even then, with these notifications coming to my cell phone, it is a constant of who’s trying to get my attention more, and the media will do anything for a click.

Going back to Washington D.C., it is becoming more and more of Hollywood’s Washington D.C. I get excited about scandals too and when people muck up, but this is all a bit too much. These are the people I’m supposed to look up and I’m supposed to be excited to meet them. It feels like they are not doing their jobs as much as just reiterating things that President Trump has said. If I’m already annoyed with him, why do I want to hear more about it?

Most times, it is people praising him, to which my response, “Oh, he had a presidential moment? You mean, like what he’s supposed to do?”

In no way is Washington D.C. proving to the younger generations that we should like politics or politicians. That old mistrust my parents have for politicians is just what I’m getting now. It’s less of being on our side then just following whatever they’re told to do.

Whatever it is through the media or the politicians, it actually makes me hate politics and turning me off, like many “youngsters,” of a whole major in college.