Enquirer slammed on Trump coverage

The New Yorker, taking a page from The Post’s own Media Ink column, puts a spotlight on President Trump’s cozy relationship with American Media chief David Pecker, which owns the National Enquirer.

The gossip tabloid once considered “newsmakers” of all stripes fair game, according to a former staffer, who called the Trump administration “the ultimate targetrich environment.”

Yet under Pecker, the Enquirer has turned a blind eye to this “golden opportunity,” according to this week’s New Yorker.

The lives of Trump and Pecker have “intersected in myriad ways” for decades, writes Jeffrey Toobin, who quotes a source describing Pecker’s role in the relationship as that of “a little puppy.”

But the possibility of Pecker expanding his empire to include top Time Inc.’s titles “makes the story of the Enquirer and its chief executive a little more important and a little less funny,” Toobin says.

Meanwhile, Time’s cover story, “Someone’s not telling the truth” to special counsel Robert Mueller as he investigates Trump, invokes the “first law of holes” to yawning effect.

“If you’re in one, stop digging,” the piece says, dusting off a platitude so shopworn it (almost) goes without saying.

Elsewhere, the author shifts the metaphor to cancer treatment: “Live or die, it will be a draining, miserable experience.”

New York’s cover story, “How the Presidency Ends,” compares the White Houses of Trump and Richard Nixon.

“If you look through a sharp Nixonian lens at Trump’s trajectory in the office to date, short as it has been, you will discover more of an overlap than you might expect,” writes Frank Rich, as if such expectations among his left-wing readership weren’t already immeasurably high.

A Trump resignation or Nixonlike impeachment may not happen, Rich admits — a contingency that clearly irks the author.