Trump tweets: The media is the 'enemy of the American people'
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President Trump blasted the media as "the enemy of the American people" in a tweet Friday, calling out several outlets specifically.
"The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!" he wrote.
He had posted and then quickly deleted a slightly different version of the tweet just a few minutes earlier, which omitted ABC and CBS. He also included the word "SICK!" at the end of the original post.
The tweet came one day after Trump held an adversarial and lengthy news conference, in which he berated the media as "very fake news” and dismissed news reports about his and his associates’ ties to Russia as a “ruse.”
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[Media]https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/832708293516632065[/media]
[URL="http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/320168-trump-the-media-is-the-enemy-of-the-american-people"]The Hill[/URL]
F A S C I S T
F A S C I S T 🤓
Trump supporters are going to cheer this but now that he is naming names, better hope to fuck that some crazy person doesn't take this as tacit approval to attack them in some way.
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Remove Trump pls
[QUOTE]and dismissed news reports about his and his associates’ ties to Russia as a “ruse.”[/QUOTE]
Wasn't this confirmed by the White House though.
Nah we are our own worst enemy
On the contrary, Trump is the enemy of the human race. Currently, at least.
[QUOTE=Raidyr;51838495]Wasn't this confirmed by the White House though.[/QUOTE]
He's been lying since the start of his campaign and he has only been rewarded for it, it's embarrassing having this guy as president
Well gee, that doesn't hold any terrifying, dictatorial implications or anything
fuck sake
can we stop pretending he isn't a fascist now? thanks
It's horrifying just even seeing the retweet count because people gobble this shit up everyday.
Trump is the enemy.
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what a great post to follow up with lmao
[QUOTE=Judas;51838535]can we stop pretending he isn't a fascist now? thanks[/QUOTE]
Of course not, don't you know there's multiple definitions of fascism and since Donald Trump doesn't fit neatly into all of them at the same time you're not allowed to make that comparison?
Also, this one time a Democrat/liberal/[YOUR GROUP HERE] did something that kinda fit one of those definitions, so there
I predict this man will have a mental breakdown in office. I predict he will be at the podium giving a speech one minute, be a sobbing heap on the floor the next.
[QUOTE=Judas;51838535]can we stop pretending he isn't a fascist now? thanks[/QUOTE]
I've gone from disagreeing with people who called him a fascist early on to think he is sort of kind of fascist. At least some flavor of authoritarian very similar to fascist.
[QUOTE=Judas;51838535]can we stop pretending he isn't a fascist now? thanks[/QUOTE]
He isn't a classical facist and bar that facism is very difficult to define. Its amorphous.
To me he is capitalist and opportunist. No more no less.
anyone find it mildly humorous he didnt call out wall street journal in that tweet
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what a great post to follow up with lmao[/QUOTE]
Oh yeah, forgot about the other obese screaming middle aged man. So that's Briebart, Info Wars and Limbaugh that are the sources of good, unbiased media.
[QUOTE=Raidyr;51838553]I've gone from disagreeing with people who called him a fascist early on to think he is sort of kind of fascist. At least some flavor of authoritarian very similar to fascist.[/QUOTE]
I agree. It didn't start this way but now he's ticking most if not all checkboxes of fascism. He was still a terrible leader choice in the beginning though.
Why doesn't he just ban media?
[QUOTE=Guriosity;51838556]He isn't a classical facist and bar that facism is very difficult to define. Its amorphous.
To me he is capitalist and opportunist. No more no less.[/QUOTE]
Then you aren't paying close enough attention. Dismissing quantifiable fact as a lie to further an agenda is a key element of fascism.
i hope people are keeping a tally on how many news outlets are "fake news "
[QUOTE=Guriosity;51838556]He isn't a classical facist and bar that facism is very difficult to define. Its amorphous.
To me he is capitalist and opportunist. No more no less.[/QUOTE]
We have had capitalist (neoliberal) and opportunist presidents in the past. We haven't had a president call the press the "enemy of the people".
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[QUOTE=SonicHitman;51838581]i hope people are keeping a tally on how many news outlets are "fake news "[/QUOTE]
Spoiler alert: [sp]It's every outlet that criticizes him[/sp]
[QUOTE=Guriosity;51838556]He isn't a classical facist and bar that facism is very difficult to define. Its amorphous.
To me he is capitalist and opportunist. No more no less.[/QUOTE]
I think the argument that he's not [I]really[/I] a fascist because fascism is an amorphous blob with more than one academically defining batch of characteristics is, at best, a bunch of chaff to avoid having to come to terms with just how closely the man resembles so many other authoritarian dictators throughout history in charge of what, in the general, colloquial sense of the word, were fascist regimes
can the secret service just fucking confiscate his samsung
I can't believe we went from Obama to...[I]this[/I].
[QUOTE=SonicHitman;51838581]i hope people are keeping a tally on how many news outlets are "fake news "[/QUOTE]
Every news outlet except Breitbart and InfoWars. FoxNews was one of them but I guess due to recent "fake news" they covered it won't be one of the "legitimate news club" anymore.
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