With each denunciation, the crowd jeered and screamed
Meanwhile Trump attacked the press again at his rally last night.
President Donald Trump is renewing his campaign against the media, claiming at a Pennsylvania rally that the media is the “fake, fake disgusting news” and casting journalists as his true political opponent.
Is he enough of a Hitler-clone yet?
Trump barnstormed Thursday night in a state that he swiped from the Democrats in 2016 and that is home to a Senate seat he is trying to place in the Republicans’ column this fall. But the race between GOP U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta and two-term incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob Casey took a back seat to Trump’s invectives against the media, which came amid a backdrop of antagonism to journalists from the White House and hostility from the thousands packed into a loud, overheated Wilkes-Barre arena.
“Whatever happened to the free press? Whatever happened to honest reporting?” Trump asked, pointing to the media in the back of the hall. “They don’t report it. They only make up stories.”
Time and time again, Trump denounced the press for underselling his accomplishments and doubting his political rise.
As an aspiring dictator would.
With each denunciation, the crowd jeered and screamed at the press in the holding pen at the back of the arena.
The inflammatory performance came just hours after White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders refused to distance herself from Trump’s previous assertions that the media is the “enemy” of the American people. Pressed during a White House briefing on the issue, Sanders said Trump “has made his position known.”
In a heated exchange with reporters, she recited a litany of complaints against the press and blamed the media for inflaming tensions in the country.
I don’t see this ending well.
Agreed. Sooner or later, someone’s going to take it into their head that they need to “protect” Trump from journalists by going after one with a gun.
I said something similar when the pizzagate nonsense was first gaining traction, and a friend of mine said I was going over the top, that people weren’t that impressionable. But that debacle and Trump’s electoral victory proved otherwise.
Claire – not to mention the fact that someone actually did take a gun into the pizza parlor and start shooting…
He wants to know what happened to a free press? A free press is not bound to say good things about the leadership in the country. If they were saying only nice things about him, or any other leader (since everyone puts their foot in it now and then), we would be entitled to ask “whatever happened to the free press?” Since they are not parroting official party line all the time, we are free to point to them and say, there. There is the free press. (Though they do tend to be much too obsequious).
No, no, no, that’s ‘balance’.
Well, it was a ‘free press’ that treated Trump’s candidacy with bogus ‘even handedness’ and whataboutery.