The question of how to cover Donald Trump has confounded many people working in the media industry since his election. There are so many areas of the presidents administration that warrant dissection that his near-daily onslaught of morning tweets started to prove something of a distraction from the potentially larger issues at hand.

So Rachel Maddow , host of MSNBC s The Rachel Maddow Show, made a decision: tune them out.

We developed sort of an informal, internal mantra which is that we basically cover [the Trump administration] as if they are a silent movie, Maddow told TheWrap earlier this month . I stopped covering the Twitter feed and we started covering only what they do rather than what they say.