With a President in the White House using social media in a way that's never seen before from a world leader, a difficult question has arose for broadcast journalists—who should be the voice of Donald Trump’s Twitter account? On this week’s TrumpWatch, we consider which voice would work best to verbalize President Trump’s Twitter activity with some help from a very special guest.

In the new documentary “Our New President,” director Maxim Pozdorovkin (“The Truth About Killer Robots,” “Pussy  Riot: A Punk Prayer”) tells the story of Donald Trump’s rise to political power entirely through the use of state-sponsored Russian TV news. Equal parts cautionary tale and absurdist farce, “Our New President” is the mirror image of the Russiagate coverage that has dominated American nightly newscasts for the last two years. In this episode of TrumpWatch, Maxim reflects on what the Russian media portrayal of Trump can tell us about that country's broader perceptions of the President.

On this week’s TrumpWatch, White House correspondent for McClatchy News and board member of the White House Correspondents' Association Anita Kumar reflects on how a new set of rules for journalists covering the White House released by President Trump’s communications staff have changed her job in the two weeks since they were issued.

Since 1990, American presidents have been required by law to oversee a major report on climate change called the National Climate Assessment  featuring research from 13 federal agencies and 300 scientists. Despite plans to release the findings in December as is standard practice, the Trump administration opted to rush the 1,600-page report out the day after Thanksgiving. On Monday, President Trump told an AP reporter, “I don’t  believe it.” On this week’s TrumpWatch, Umair Irfan, staff writer for Vox, considers the environmental consequences for a president who says he doesn’t believe global warming is a threat.

You can find footage of President Donald Trump weighing in on just about any issue other than homelessness. Yet an increasing number of economists have raised the issue of whether Trump’s budget cuts to the social safety net have led to a jump in the number of homeless people in America’s richest cities unseen since President Ronald Reagan employed similar cost-cutting measures in the 1980s. On this week's TrumpWatch, Esme Deprez, co-author of the Bloomberg Businessweek article “The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest Cities,” explores what effect Trump administration policies are having to exacerbate the epidemic of homelessness in the most prosperous of the nation’s urban centers.

On Tuesday, the FBI revealed that hate crimes in the U.S. rose 17 percent in 2017, the third consecutive year that figure has gone up. The report cites 7,175 hate crimes for the year, yet according to Arjun Singh Sethi, author of “American Hate: Survivors Speak Out,” considering the tendency of state and federal agencies to underreport such incidents, the number is most likely much higher. On this week’s TrumpWatch, Arjun looks at the role President Trump has played in the spike in hate violence observed in this country since his rise to power and considers what can be done to reverse this disturbing trend.

The 2018 election was the most hotly anticipated midterm in decades. But what do the results mean for the President and his policy agenda? On  this week’s TrumpWatch, Paul Kane, senior congressional reporter for the Washington Post, helps break down how the first Democratic majority in the House of Representatives in eight years and a larger Republican majority in the Senate will shape the next two years of the Trump presidency.

On Saturday, the New York Times revealed a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) memo on a proposed Trump administration plan to  redefine the way the federal government recognizes gender. By reclassifying a person’s sex based solely on the genitalia they were born with in the federal civil rights law called Title IX, HHS could restrict access to civil rights protections in schools, health care and other social services. On this week’s TrumpWatch, Sarah McBride, national press secretary for the Human Rights Campaign, the largest civil rights organization for lesbian, gay,  bisexual, transgender and queer people in the US, explains what this change in federal policy would mean.

“If hackers target this November’s midterm elections, the consequences  could be far more serious than the mostly quiet probing of 2016 and would fall on an electorate that has yet to receive a full reckoning of Russia’s attack,” reads Mother Jones reporters AJ Vicens and Pema Levy's latest article  “The Midterm Elections Are in Serious Danger of Being  Hacked, Thanks to Trump. Hackers could try to create chaos by causing machines to malfunction, deleting properly registered voters, or even going so far as manipulating vote totals.” On this week’s TrumpWatch, Pema discusses critical vulnerabilities in America’s voting system.

When Justice Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to the Supreme Court on Saturday, despite moving Senate testimony from Dr. Christine Blassey Ford that he had sexually assaulted her when they were teens, the country divided along mostly partisan lines on whom they believed and what they thought of the outcome. One issue that got little discussion in the controversy over Kavanaugh was the 5-4 conservative majority he brings to the highest court in the land will mean for environmental regulation in America. On this week’s TrumpWatch, Jay Michaelson, legal affairs columnist for The Daily Beast, discusses his op-ed "Kavanaugh and Supreme Court to Planet: Drop Dead."