I'll never forget Donald Trump's one and only campaign rally in Burlington, at the Flynn on January 7, 2016. It was two months before Vermonters would cast their votes in the presidential primary. Bernie Sanders was running against Hillary Clinton, and Trump was competing against a whole cast of characters, from Ted Cruz to Chris Christie, for the Republican nomination. The local "Trumpnado," as some coined it, was unexpected. At least it caught the Seven Days news team off guard. Our reporters had just returned from the paper's annual holiday break, and everyone was hard at work on other stories. There was an argument to be made for skipping the event. Organizers had issued 20,000 tickets for a venue with fewer than 2,000 seats, and they weren't exactly welcoming journalists; by then Trump's disdain for the press was well known. Most importantly: At the time it didn't look like Trump stood a chance. Thankfully we were able to scramble the jets and dispatch a team of photographers and reporters to document the historic appearance. Our full-time video journalist, Eva Sollberger, made a compelling and thorough "Stuck in Vermont" episode about it. Marc Nadel drew one of the greatest cover illustrations we have ever published, of the "Trump Elvis." [content-1] I volunteered to stand in the line of people that stretched four and a half city blocks — to the corner of Maple Street and South Winooski Avenue — to get a better sense of who they were. Not all were Trumpers from New York's North Country, as it turned out. I found Ben & Jerry's cofounder Ben Cohen in the queue; he was curious, too. I wrote up a short report to accompany a photo essay that ran in the paper; a slideshow and a more detailed dispatch on the event ran online. [content-3] A little over a year later, Trump was president and back on the cover of Seven Days. From day one, he gave us plenty to write about. His distinctive profile cast an ominous shadow in the illustration for our February 15, 2017, story: "Fear on the Farm: How Trump's Immigration Crackdown Could Decimate Vermont's Dairy Industry." [content-5] Three months later, prompted by his firing of FBI director James Comey, we followed up with "Trumpatized? Prominent Vermonters Reveal Their White House Worries." The headline on the cover, worded a little differently, read: "How Freaked Out Should…