That's what I do and my wife is like yours. I always switch to CNN and MSNBC if she's not around to see how they're reporting it. You want to know what the competition is doing and thinking.
Google News on my computer has 80% negative articles on Trump. The biggest spreaders of news however are probably the NY Times and Washington Post. Many news media around the world read their bylines because they don't have their own news staff to get the news. So they just repeat these papers' articles which are negative about Trump and slant the news. It's why many people have certain opinions about him and the USA. Or they watch CNN or Bloomberg which are also left of center and negative Trump.
Alan, you seem to know a hell of lot about how "the rest of the world" works. I did not need anyone to tell me about what kind of person Donald Trump is: he has shown me himself. Everything my mother, and I am sure many other mothers,
taught me not to be can be found in him.
Now let me tell you what I think of the United States: my father fought alongside Americans in Italy. I watched closely as a young boy what was going on in Vietnam (and was on your side). I listened (we had no TV in South Africa then) to the moon landings and shared in your pride. I believed you when you said you were the "greatest nation on earth" and that you had such a wonderful constitution and so on... I always thought that the President of the United States would/should be the most respected person on earth - or at least strive to be.
I don't need any media, print or TV, to see or tell me what kind pf person is running your country - I see him with my own eyes and hear him with my own ears.
However, I believe that we will see massive numbers of "normal" Americans who will come out and vote in greater numbers than ever before to put and end to this strange time in your history and I look forward to the day when you once again take up your role as an example to other parts of the world.
James Carville wrote an inspiring article in "The Bulwark" a few days and I certainly don't expect you to read it - as much as you like telling us how like to "keep up with what the other side is doing", but here is the link anyway:
"We are constantly told that America is too divided, too hopelessly stricken by tribalism to come together anymore. Well, I’m here to proclaim that this received 'wisdom' is just plain wrong."- James Carville.
https://thebulwark.com/a-crusade-for-something-noble/I wish you guys nothing but the best.
P.S. Please don't come back at me with something about "giving us money, or wasting your money". This is not about money, it's about respect, honour and decency.
We don't want your money...