Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Reuters/National Archives In the 1960s, President Lyndon Johnson had three large TV sets bolted into the walls of the Oval Office, one tuned to each network—there were only three in those days: ABC, CBS, and NBC. He feverishly monitored all of them, often simultaneously. It was the behavior of a man who understood, viscerally, that the story being told about the Vietnam War, which became his war, was as important as the war itself. And he slowly, and painfully, lost control of both the war and the narrative. Some six decades later, President Trump is experiencing the same failure . There is no room on the gold, gewgaw-covered walls of Donald Trump’s Oval Office for such a setup, but we know from his constant whining that he, too, is a creature of television, obsessively watching Fox, CNN, and MSNBC—maybe a peek at the increasingly " MAGA-coded" CBS News too —and then raging at all of them on Truth Social through the night. Read more at The Daily Beast.