“All you do is bash President Trump.”

This has become a common complaint from a certain segment of our readers and is important to address.

Love him or hate him, Donald Trump is like no other president in recent memory. He came with the promise of shaking things in Washington up and, for good or for ill, has succeeded.

But, he has also spread more false information than any recent president. This isn’t speculation or name-calling, this is fact. The Washington Post recorded more than 1,300 false or misleading claims made by the president in his first 263 days in office — an average of nearly five times a day.

Meanwhile, he labels the news media — those tasked with holding him to account — “the enemy of the American people.”

New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow wrote that “… Trump is all street fight, on the widest street, under the brightest light. And the media is an easy target, because it targets him. The press is in search of truths and Trump is a fount of lies, which makes them natural adversaries.”

Every president has been scrutinized by the media. But Donald Trump has given news outlets more to scrutinize in his first year in office than some would in their entire term, replete with the defamation of not only journalists, but his perceived enemies (including but not limited to members of Congress — Democrats and Republicans — former President Obama, members of his own cabinet past and present, celebrities and professional football players).

It’s incumbent on us to print stories that take a hard look at Trump’s policies and, sometimes to our chagrin, his tweets.

The result is what you frequently read both on the Opinion and in the Nation/World sections of The Times Record.