MEDIA IS THE ENEMY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE : DONALD TRUMP

Washington: Donald Trump stir up up his attacks on the media on 16 Feb, the media as “the enemy of the American people!” in a tweet.

Shortly after landing at his holiday home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida — where he is spending a third consecutive weekend — the president lashed out in 140 characters. “The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!” Trump wrote.

Though many US presidents have criticized the media, but Trump’s language has more closely echoed criticism leveled by authoritarian leaders around the world.

The US president has built his campaign on criticizing the press as biased.

On February 15’2017, Trump launched a long diatribe at a grievance-filled news conference, in which he blamed the media for his one-month-old administration’s problems.