new brands for a number of people, including "Mad Bitch Beer" for Hillary Clinton. Both men apologized for the video and the series was canceled. In a December 4, 2021 Op-ed, Milbank wrote that overall US media sentiment for President Joe Biden is as bad as, if not worse than, it was for then-President Donald Trump. He used data from the analytics company Forge.ai to mine through more than 200,000 articles from 65 different news sources to create a "sentiment analysis" of pro or con coverage. The comparison was done of the first 11 months of the Trump administration versus the same timeframe of the Biden term. His analysis showed that Biden had had mainly positive coverage for the first three months of the year, but the press covered Biden more harshly than Trump in the past four months. Nate Silver, of FiveThirtyEight, questioned Milbank's conclusion. Books Milbank is the author of Smash Mouth: Two Years in the Gutter with Al Gore and George W. Bush—Notes from the 2000 Campaign Trail.Homo Politicus: The Strange and Scary Tribes that Run Our Government was published by Random House in January 2008. In 2010, Doubleday released Milbank's polemic biography of conservative pundit Glenn Beck: Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America, which a review in Milbank's paper, The Washington Post, said was a "droll, take-no-prisoners account of the nation's most audacious conspiracy-spinner." In 2022, Milbank authored The Destructionists: The 25-Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party. Political views Milbank has stated that his policy on United States presidential elections is to vote for the best candidate who is not on the ballot. He voted for John McCain in 2000, Chuck Hagel in 2004, and Michael Bloomberg in 2008. He explained that his approach allows him to "go through the exercise of who would be a good president" while avoiding committing to one candidate or another in the race. Greg Marx, associate editor of the Columbia Journalism Review'', describes Milbank as "extravagantly contrarian". New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen wrote of "Milbank's insistence on characterizing political debate as consisting of two unreasonable poles, and himself as a truth-teller caught in the middle — a posture so habitual and inflexible that it has become an ideology". Milbank has criticized the growth of the White House Correspondents' Dinner, writing in 2011 that the event "was a minor annoyance for years, when