ridiculing reporters while bringing in far right tv personalities and radio hosts to the white house, in some ways a campaign rally for 2020. it was tempting to say we should just ignore it and call it a stunt and move on. but something important was happening. trump was legitimizing provocateurs and extremists. it felt to me he was preparing his 2020 meme corpse. they make visual images that go on facebook and go viral. the summit suggests that 2016 s meme army was just proof afcon september for an information war in 2020. warzel said whatever is coming, we re not prepared. i think what he means by we is newsroom s, media companies. the people that try to make sense of the world for you. it felt the summit was a campaign 2020 strategy. hand-picked press corps. but the attendees don t work for news rooms.