{"id":66427,"date":"2017-02-18T13:26:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T17:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=66427"},"modified":"2017-02-18T13:26:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T17:26:12","slug":"trump-calls-media-enemy-of-the-american-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=66427","title":{"rendered":"Trump calls media \u2018enemy of the American people\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1jddqlg-640x303.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1jddqlg-640x303.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"303\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1jddqlg-640x303.jpg 640w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1jddqlg-640x303-300x142.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>by AFP<\/p>\n<p>Washington (AFP) \u2013 Donald Trump ratcheted up his attacks on the media Friday, describing the press as \u201cthe enemy of the American people!\u201d in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after landing at his holiday home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida \u2014 where he is spending a third consecutive weekend \u2014 the president lashed out in 140 characters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Trump had tweeted an earlier post which targeted the New York Times, CNN, NBC \u201cand many more\u201d media \u2014 and ended with the exclamation \u201cSICK!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But he swiftly deleted that missive before reposting the definitive version \u2014 adding two more \u201cenemies\u201d to his blacklist.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/launch.newsinc.com\/?type=VideoPlayer\/Single&amp;widgetId=1&amp;trackingGroup=69016&amp;playlistId=19132&amp;siteSection=90085_dynamic_mlt&amp;videoId=32007485\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" frameborder=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Many US presidents have criticized the press, but Trump\u2019s language has more closely echoed criticism leveled by authoritarian leaders around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who regularly accuses the media of overstating his setbacks, also has accused journalists of failing to show sufficient respect for his accomplishments \u2014 including in their coverage of a rambling press conference on Thursday in which he voiced a litany of grievances against their industry.<\/p>\n<p>Many reporters were taken aback by the ranting press conference described by some as bizarre, but Trump echoed the words of praise he got from one rightwing commentator and insisted that Thursday\u2019s outing had been a bravura performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018One of the most effective press conferences I\u2019ve ever seen!\u2019 says Rush Limbaugh. Many agree. Yet FAKE MEDIA calls it differently! Dishonest,\u201d Trump wrote on Twitter about an hour after the earlier tweet.<\/p>\n<p>The 70-year-old built his campaign on criticizing the press as biased.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, he launched a long diatribe at a grievance-filled news conference, in which he blamed the media for his one-month-old administration\u2019s problems.<\/p>\n<p>In four tumultuous weeks, Trump has seen his national security advisor ousted, a cabinet nominee withdraw, a centerpiece immigration policy fail in the courts and a tidal wave of damaging leaks.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/trump-calls-media-enemy-of-the-american-people\/\">http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/trump-calls-media-enemy-of-the-american-people\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}