02-19-2017, 01:39 PM
The American president called the media the "enemy of the people"
Here is what that means:
And of course he does it repeatedly, like yesterday on a "campaign" rally in Florida (just a month into his Presidency..)
And this is a guy who took every little innuendo about his opponents in the campaign as the "truth" to slam them (even suggesting bizar stuff like Ted Cruz's father for being involved in Kennedy's assassination) and whipping up crowds that his Democratic opponent should be locked up.
And speaking about the press, he uncritically cites friendly press, even if they simply make up facts:
Here is what that means:
Quote:Being branded an "enemy of the people" by the likes of Stalin or Mao brought at best suspicion and stigma, at worst hard labour or death. Now the chilling phrase - which is at least as old as Emperor Nero, who was called "hostis publicus", enemy of the public, by the Senate in AD 68 - is making something of a comeback. In November, the UK Daily Mail used its entire front page to brand three judges "enemies of the people" following a legal ruling on the Brexit process. Then on Friday, President Donald Trump deployed the epithet against mainstream US media outlets that he sees as hostile.'Enemies of the people': Trump remark echoes history's worst tyrants - BBC News
"The FAKE NEWS media (failing New York Times, NBC News, ABC, CBS, CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!" he wrote on Twitter.
And of course he does it repeatedly, like yesterday on a "campaign" rally in Florida (just a month into his Presidency..)
Quote:US President Donald Trump has launched another fierce attack on the media at a "campaign rally for America" event in the state of Florida. He told the crowd in Melbourne the media did not want "to report the truth" and had their own agenda.Donald Trump savages media at Florida rally - BBC News
And this is a guy who took every little innuendo about his opponents in the campaign as the "truth" to slam them (even suggesting bizar stuff like Ted Cruz's father for being involved in Kennedy's assassination) and whipping up crowds that his Democratic opponent should be locked up.
And speaking about the press, he uncritically cites friendly press, even if they simply make up facts:
Quote:President Donald Trump cited a nonexistent incident in Sweden while talking about the relationship between terror attacks and refugees around the world during a rally in Melbourne, Florida, on Saturday. "You look at what's happening in Germany. You look at what's happening last night in Sweden ... Sweden ... who would believe this? Sweden, they took in large numbers, they are having problems like they never thought possible. You look at what's happening Brussels, you look at what's happening all over the world," Trump said.Trump cites nonexistent Sweden incident during rally - Business Insider
No incident occurred in Sweden on Friday night.
However, Fox News host Tucker Carlson ran an interview on Friday night's broadcast of "Tucker Carlson Tonight" with documentarian and media personality Ami Horowitz, who presented a clip from a new film documenting alleged violence committed by refugees in Sweden. The segment went on extensively about a supposed crime surge in Sweden and its links to immigrant populations.
Crime rates in Sweden have stayed relatively stable, with some fluctuations, over the last decade, according to the 2016 Swedish Crime Survey.
This isn't the first time that there has been a correlation between Trump's statements and programming on cable news, of which he is a noted fan.
In late January, Trump tweeted about gun violence in Chicago shortly after after an "O'Reilly Factor" segment on the same topic, which cited the same statistics and even used the word "carnage," a recent favorite noun of Trump's.
In February, Trump declared in a tweet that he was calling "my own shots" in his administration shortly after MSNBC "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough asked on air whether Trump's chief White House strategist, Steve Bannon, was "calling the shots" in the White House.