It's been 663 days since Donald Trump descended down his infamous elevator and onto the political platform. Since then, America has time and time again been struck with the things he says and does, which granted, are important, without really looking into his plans for governing.

I call this the "Trump Trick." Trump says something outlandish, but since he's the Republican frontrunner, or the Republican nominee, or the President, the news media takes it and make it the news cycle for days. Even now that he is President and there's no one running against him, (other than the Democratic Party and a majority of voting Americans) the media still chooses to latch on to the insane things he claims as if he's announcing the annexation of new territory.

On March 4, President Trump tweeted, "How low has President Obama gone to tapp (tap) my phones (or microwaves) during the very sacred (rigged, apparently) election process." The media immediately hops on this train.

Fast forward to March 22: Rep. Devin Nunes says that there was an "incidental collection" of communications from Trump transition team members, collected legally through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

So there were 18 days the media wasted on covering a made up scandal. What did President Trump do during those 18 days?

He signed an executive order banning people from 6 majority-Muslim countries.

He tried to repeal Obamacare by taking away insurance from 24 million people.

He signed an executive order to eliminate several federal government positions.

He held a campaign rally in Nashville for no reason.

He revealed his budget proposal, cutting departments like the EPA and State by large amounts and adding tens of billions to defense spending.

He refused to shake Angela Merkel's hand.

He was revealed to be under investigation by the FBI.

And he held another campaign rally.

The media needs to stop falling for the Trump Trick. They can't get hooked into the baseless things he says for weeks on end. The wiretapping story should have lasted two days tops. We have four years to cover this man. Every minute that we spend blasting one of his tweets on TV, asking senators and representatives what they think about it, using the court of public opinion to force the usage of actual time and resources to unsubstantiated tweets, the more time President Trump and his band of merry misfits get to spend in closed door meetings and unquestioned policy planning.

Don't fall for the Trump Trick. We have seen enough of this act that the mainstream media needs to do a better job of covering it. We shouldn't be leaving the serious issues up to the late night comedians, as funny and accurate as they may be, to be our news anchors.