The way I see it, it's a two-horse race.
You can probably guess who I'm betting on.
I know, Journalism has taken its lumps over the past few years and Citizen Bull seems to have won recently in his duel with "60 Minutes."
But in the end, Journalism has to win out. Our future depends on it.
I know what you're thinking. This is just a horse race. It's got nothing to do with our future.
But the fact is − and we're not necessarily talking about the Kentucky Derby here − there is nothing more important in this day and age than Journalism.
Poor Citizen Bull gets equated with Trump here simply because he was one of the early favorites - though his odds have gone down in recent days - and because, quite frankly, the name fits.
Noted handicapper Thomas Jefferson wrote back in 1787 that Journalism was needed to keep a check on government, and that if he had to choose between a government without Journalism and Journalism without a government, "I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."
It seems that Citizen Bull disagrees with Jefferson.
He's done everything in his power to undercut Journalism - all the while trying amass power and use it like no other before him - and he doesn't seem to be letting up.
Citizen Bull recently explained the difference between this race and the last one he ran: "The first time, I had two things to do - run the country and survive; I had all these crooked guys. ... And the second time, I run the country and the world."
He started his assault on Journalism and truth tellers years ago but ramped it up before the 2024 election when he filed suit against "60 Minutes" after CBS News aired footage of then-Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris answering a question two slightly different ways.
Citizen Bull claimed the network was trying to influence the election.
It's rather silly and the suit has no merit.
But where it gets tricky is that he has called on the Federal Communications Commission to take action against CBS News. Normally, the FCC has little control over networks - it licenses individual stations not CBS, NBC, Fox and ABC - but in this case, it's a little different.
Paramount Global, CBS' parent company, is seeking a merger with Skydance Media and needs FCC approval for the merger to go through. In its effort to secure that approval, Paramount took unprecedented interest in what "60 Minutes" was doing.
Longtime producer Bill Owens recently quit over the interference from Paramount.
Citizen Bull's attack on Journalism hasn't stopped there.
He's sued the Des Moines Register (and Gannett, which also owns The Courier Journal) over a poll in the closing days of the presidential campaign that showed then-Vice President Harris ahead. And he's sued ABC News over comments made by "This Week" host George Stephanopoulos.
He's illegally prohibited The Associated Press from covering events in the Oval Office because the news organization continues to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of Mexico - despite his silly executive order to rename it the Gulf of America.
His Department of Defense has thrown legacy news media that he believes is unfriendly to him out of office space at the Pentagon, turning it over to sycophantic organizations like Breitbart and One America News Network, and his press team has taken over the credentialing of media in the White House - something the White House press corps had done for decades.
Real Journalism is under assault.
While Journalism has had missteps in some of its previous outings - no horse or no human is perfect - it has tried to hold Citizen Bull accountable by questioning what he is doing when it comes to his crackdown on immigrants and his handling of the economy.
Despite the economic challenges facing Journalism these days and the attacks by Citizen Bull, people seem to be paying attention.
Recent polling shows the majority of Americans now think he's gone too far with an immigration crackdown that includes deporting children who are American citizens and immigrants whom courts have granted protection status here.
And they see his quixotic trade policy - will he or won't he levy tariffs on our enemies and our allies - as likely to throw the nation and the world into a recession.
Without real Journalism, you wouldn't know any of this and Citizen Bull would be running away from the field.
Joseph Gerth can be reached by email at jgerth@courierjournal.com. This column originally published in the Louisville Courier Journal.
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