The fascist President Trump - The Media ‘The Enemy Of The American People’

[Watcher]

02/17/2017 05:10 pm ET | Updated 1 hour ago
Donald Trump Calls The Media ‘The Enemy Of The American People’
The president is again lashing out at the press.
By Mollie Reilly

President Donald Trump vilified the press again Friday, tweeting that the media are “the enemy of the American people” and specifically calling out several major news organizations.

Earlier, Trump tweeted and then quickly deleted a slightly different version of the tweet. The revised version includes mentions of ABC and CBS in addition to the other news outlets. All of these outlets have reported on significant controversies involving Trump and his administration, including claims that his team communicated with Russian officials throughout the presidential campaign.

The White House didn’t immediately return a request for comment.

Trump’s tweet drew swift criticism from reporters:




And NBC News presidential historian Michael Beschloss pointed out how Trump’s rhetoric echoed President Richard Nixon’s during the Watergate scandal:


Trump’s tweet came one day after he spent a major chunk of a meandering 77-minute press conference disparaging the press. He called the media “out of control” and “dishonest.” He also blamed what he called the “fake media” for former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s resignation, claiming reporters treated the former general “very unfairly.”

He also frequently attacks publications on his Twitter account and has claimed that polls showing negative ratings for him are “fake news.”

 

[Non-StopJFK2TAB]

I wouldn't post anything from That Guy.

 

[Watcher]

 

[Watcher]

'It's a fake presidency': Mika Brzezinski fires back at Trump after the President's marathon press conference criticizing the media and Morning Joe's feud with advisor Kellyanne Conway

• MSNBC's Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski called Trump's presidency fake
• The host poked holes in the administration's credibility saying they have been spreading lies and 'alternative facts'
• Donald Trump continued to denounce the media during his speech yesterday
• Morning Joe announced on Wednesday that Kellyanne Conway will no longer be allowed on the show

MSNBC's Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski called Trump's presidency fake Thursday morning after she and Scarborough listed false statements made by the Administration


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...says-Trump-fake-presidency.html#ixzz4YzR7htK4

 

[Watcher]

Trump blasts 'fake media' for panning his marathon press conference – and praises right-winger Rush Limbaugh for understanding him

• President Donald Trump renewed his attacks on 'fake media' Friday morning, blasting reporters for criticizing Thursday's marathon press conference
• Trump praised right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh for calling the presser a tour de force
• Limbaugh said Trump was 'going over the head of the media right to the American people'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...a-panning-press-conference.html#ixzz4YzRjbjJ1

 

[Watcher]

Germany warns Trump not to hurt EU cohesion by cosying up to Russia behind his allies' backs

• Europe has been rattled by President Trump's softer approach toward Russia
• Germany's Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen said Friday a 'stable European Union is also in America's interest' and so is a 'strong and unified NATO'
• She also cautioned the US against taking transatlantic ties for granted
• While pursuing a reliable relationship with Russia as a whole, allied nations must not be 'going above partners' heads in bilateral negotiations', she said
• She also took aim at Trump's ban of migrants from majority-Muslim nations

Germany's Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen on Friday warned Washington, DC, against hurting European cohesion and seeking a rapprochement with Russia behind the backs of its allies.

Europe has been rattled by President Donald Trump's praise for Britain's decision to quit the EU, his criticism of NATO, and his softer approach toward Russia.

'Our American friends know well that your tone on Europe and NATO has a direct impact on the cohesion of our continent,' the German minister told the Munich Security Conference.

'A stable European Union is also in America's interest, as is a strong and unified NATO,' she said.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...Trump-not-hurt-EU-cohesion.html#ixzz4YzSDPVxg

 

[shamone]

we got 404 weeks left of this shit.

 

[Esther]

getting the press/media upset is a bad move on Trumps part so I hope they expose him. I ,also, hope he does something so big that FoxNews has to go against him.

 

[easy_b]

Go after the media and the CIA at the same time wow he is really stupid

 

[Watcher]

John McCain just systematically dismantled Donald Trump’s entire worldview

“In recent years, this question would invite accusations of hyperbole and alarmism; not this year,” McCain said. “If ever there were a time to treat this question with a deadly seriousness, it is now.”

[Trump’s war with the media isn’t new. Thomas Jefferson railed about ‘newspaper lies,’ too.]

In case there was any doubt that this was about Trump. Here's what followed:

• "[The founders of the Munich conference] would be alarmed by an increasing turn away from universal values and toward old ties of blood and race and sectarianism.”
• “They would be alarmed by the hardening resentment we see towards immigrants and refugees and minority groups -- especially Muslims.”
• “They would be alarmed by the growing inability -- and even unwillingness -- to separate truth from lies.”
• "They would be alarmed that more and more of our fellow citizens seem to be flirting with authoritarianism and romanticizing it as our moral equivalent."

That's Trump, Trump, Trump and Trump.

McCain continued: “But what would alarm them most, I think, is a sense that many of our peoples, including in my own country, are giving up on the West, that they see it as a bad deal that we may be better off without, and that while Western nations still have the power to maintain our world order, it's unclear whether we have the will.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...umps-entire-worldview/?utm_term=.468b38b06b39

 

[Watcher]

Trump yells at CIA director over reports intel officials are keeping info from him

Last Updated Feb 17, 2017 7:06 PM EST

This story has been updated with the CIA’s response.

CBS News has learned that on Thursday, an angry President Trump called CIA Director Mike Pompeo and yelled at him for not pushing back hard enough against reports that the intelligence community was withholding information from the commander-in-chief.

The agency then drafted a strongly worded statement rebutting the claim. “We are not aware of any instance when that has occurred,” read Pompeo’s statement. “It is CIA’s mission to provide the President with the best intelligence possible and to explain the basis for that intelligence. The CIA does not, has not, and will never hide intelligence from the President, period.”


Play VIDEO
Trump slams the intel community for leaks to media
On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal had reported that U.S. intelligence officials have kept information from Mr. Trump because they feared it could be leaked or compromised.

CIA spokesman Dean Boyd denied Friday that there was a conversation between Pompeo and Mr. Trump about the article.

“There was no conversation between the CIA Director and the President about the Wall Street Journal article either before or after CIA issued its statement about the article,” Boyd said. “The CIA issued its statement on its own accord because the story was inaccurate and we felt the need to defend the integrity of our officers and institution.”

The reality is, insiders say, that there has been a “chill” in the information flow. Intelligence sources say the agency is intent on protecting information, and if there are concerns it could be compromised, it will be withheld.

The ongoing investigation into whether Trump associates coordinated with the Russians remains a concern for some who handle sensitive data. It can be inferred that there is a lack of trust, and because the CIA has had a role in uncovering signs of Russian cyber intrusions, there are also concerns that sensitive information could be shared with adversaries.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-y...l-officials-are-keeping-information-from-him/

 

[Watcher]

Breitbart reporters eventually will be the only journalist allowed at the White House.

Trump son-in-law tells Time Warner of CNN concerns


President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, recently met with CNN's parent company Time Warner and mentioned the cable news network's coverage of the administration as slanted.

During the meeting at the White House, Kushner expressed concerns about what the administration considers is CNN's unfair coverage of the President to Gary Ginsberg, Time Warner's executive vice president of corporate marketing and communications, two persons familiar with the situation said. One of the persons said that topics of the discussion included Israel and Kushner made a joking reference to CNN's perceived anti-Trump coverage.

Trump disparaged CNN during his press conference Thursday while taking a question from CNN's senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta noting "the hatred coming from other people on your network."

The president has made clear his disdain for CNN. A month ago, during Trump's first full press conference after being elected, he called CNN a peddler of "fake news"because the network had produced a story reporting that the U.S. intelligence officials had presented Trump and President Obama with a "dossier" of unverified, but potentially compromising information about the president-elect that Russian operatives claimed to have.

What makes the CNN-Time Warner situation so sticky is AT&T's pending $85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner. During the campaign, Trump criticized the merger because the resulting company would have too much market power. “AT&T is buying Time Warner, and thus CNN, a deal we will not approve in my administration,” he said in October.

However, post-election meetings with administration officials left AT&T executives with confidence about passage, The Financial Times reported in December, citing persons familiar with the situation.

Trump and AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson did not discuss the merger when they met last month, the company said. But Stephenson last week told CNBC he expects the deal to pass Justice Department scrutiny and close by the end of the year. And the subject of the merger reportedly did not arise during Kushner's recent meeting with Time Warner, according to The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the meeting.

AT&T, Time Warner and CNN declined comment on the meeting.

But two CNN analysts — Republican strategist and commentator Ana Navarro and Van Jones, a former adviser to President Obama — responded to the report on Twitter. Navarro noted that Kushner "who's supposed to achieve Middle East peace, is complaining about me to CNN," in a tweet.

Jones used some lyrics from Drake's song Energy — "Got a lotta people tryna drain me of this energy." -- then added, "But y'all know @CNN has our backs. Do you? RT if yes! (@jaredkushner, u can RT, 2!)."

Both sides in this situation should tread carefully, says John Coffee, a law professor and and director of the Center on Corporate Governance at Columbia Law School. "Time Warner is extremely vulnerable to pressure in this context — although the slightest application of pressure would backfire explosively," he said. "Trump really cannot afford another fiasco right now when his administration keeps stumbling over itself. Thus, we may be witnessing another self-inflicted wound that is about to occur."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money...-law-tells-time-warner-cnn-concerns/98057476/

 

[Watcher]

Trump proposes including Chinese visitors in social media checks
By JOSH GERSTEIN


02/17/17 02:41 PM EST

The Trump administration is moving to expand social media checks to cover Chinese citizens traveling to the U.S.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials are proposing to ask Chinese visitors to disclose their social media "handles" or other identifiers on common social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook. The question would be asked online as part of an electronic system Chinese holders of long-term U.S. business and visitor visas use to advise of upcoming travel.

Answering the question would be "optional," CBP said in a notice set for publication Tuesday in the Federal Register. Those who don't wish to answer will have their travel requests processed "without a negative interpretation or inference," the notice said.

The Obama administration rolled out a similar, voluntary, social-media screening effort late last year for travelers eligible to enter the U.S. through the Visa Waiver Program, which includes many European countries and other highly-developed nations.

The move to cover Chinese visitors in the social-media-focused screening comes as Trump administration officials are publicly discussing far more intrusive steps to vet foreigners seeking to enter the U.S., including asking for social media passwords.

Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly told a Congressional hearing last week that the administration was considering asking visitors from some countries to turn over those codes as part of an attempt to screen out potential terrorists.

"If they come in, we want to say, what websites do they visit, and give us your passwords. So, we can see what they do on the internet," Kelly said.

Online privacy advocates and technology firms are deeply wary of the security and privacy implications of that idea. Some activists are concerned that expanding the current social-media collection effort is the Trump administration's first formal step in that direction.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/under...mp-chinese-visitors-social-media-check-235146

 

[gene cisco]

getting the press/media upset is a bad move on Trumps part so I hope they expose him. I ,also, hope he does something so big that FoxNews has to go against him.

He's been talking shit about the media. Nothing new. Fox News? Don't you remember his beef with Fox back in 2015? Fox news just fell in line like the rest of the GOP. He seems to have no fucks to give about the media, just social media since he's the country's first social media president.

 

[djpolo]

Watch thanks for the updates on this idiot. I don't watch the news only click on MSN once a day or so, so a brother appreciates the post bec one day hopefully you'll post some shit about this stupid MF getting impeached.

 

[Ing4life]

Watch thanks for the updates on this idiot. I don't watch the news only click on MSN once a day or so, so a brother appreciates the post bec one day hopefully you'll post some shit about this stupid MF getting impeached.

Well, Trump is starting his campaign for 2020 tomorrow and is hold a rally.

 

[djpolo]

Well, Trump is starting his campaign for 2020 tomorrow and is hold a rally.

Lol sigh less than a month, less than a month.

 

[ballscout1]

Trump is a moron but even a broken clock is right twice a day...

He is right but for all the wrong reasons

The mainstream media is our enemy.

They are also responsible for the rise of the Trump support base..

 

[Esther]

Wouldnt it be something if Pence and Bannon was the leak so that Trump could get impeached and Pence could be the President?

 

[Helico-pterFunk]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4236568/Memes-Tiny-Trump-internet-storm.html

 

[Nzinga]

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Images of Trump looking particularly tiny are taking the internet by storm as he is photoshopped into photos with world leaders like Russia's Vladimir Putin

First lady Melania Trump leads a Tiny Trump down stairs at the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau kneels down to speak to Trump in a photo that originally contained England's Prince George

Vice President Mike Pence watches on as Tiny Trump signs an executive order

Selfie time! Former president Barack Obama poses for a photo with Tiny Trump and a White House staffer's 11-year-old child

Fake news: Tiny Trump pictured looking up to CNN's Anderson Cooper

Thumbs up: Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stands tall beside a Tiny Trump

People are shrinking Trump to a tiny version of himself next to other world leaders, including Canada's Justin Trudeau

Tiny Trump is escorted on an airport tarmac by members of his secret service

Tiny Trump sits behind his Oval Office desk while taking a call from Russia's Vladimir Putin

The internet has now been flooded with memes of Trump looking about four feet tall



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4236568/Memes-Tiny-Trump-internet-storm.html#ixzz4Z2DXtPv2
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[Megatron X]

You whine about Trump everyday. At the same time you never called out Obama and his constant avoidance of blacks in the USA. You all give him a pass but you're expected to be taken seriously about trump. I can't wait until more and more people tell blacks that they had a black president and stood by and most never held him accountable.

 

[Mrfreddygoodbud]

He is the typical super hypocritical out of touch ol ass cracka....

Sooooooooooo the media wasn't fake when they said five melanin rich aka black men raped a pink lady in central park

And he took out a full page ad saying they should be hung

So the media's fake details were OK back then..

Huh you fuckin orange fuck face hypocrite....

 

[Watcher]

You whine about Trump everyday. At the same time you never called out Obama and his constant avoidance of blacks in the USA. You all give him a pass but you're expected to be taken seriously about trump. I can't wait until more and more people tell blacks that they had a black president and stood by and most never held him accountable.

How to tell if someone is white. Example given by Megatron X

Your opinion is everyone is lying about Trump huh

There is no debating mentally ill people like yourself who support President Agent Orange.

 

[Watcher]

I'm glad Bill Maher had this mentally ill Trump supporter on. I have never seen Milo talk and watching him was another confirmation all republicans have a mental disorder.

This thing is really off

 

[Quek9]

Trump is a moron but even a broken clock is right twice a day...

He is right but for all the wrong reasons

The mainstream media is our enemy.

They are also responsible for the rise of the Trump support base..

Cosign this. It is the false equivalency narrative that they have adopted. Facts don't require opposing arguments. It is like debating flat earth versus spherical earth, it does a disservice to the actual fact that the earth is not flat. If they did their job in the first place, Trump would have never been elected. They are getting poetic justice from a monster they helped to create.

 

[Watcher]

 

[cocobeauty]

He has a nice lil setup going on. Let's get the people to turn against the media so when they get the real fuckery going no one will believe the media. When people are being slaughtered in neighborhoods military style, or that we're attacking other countries, etc.

If he gets this going now to dismantle the belief in the media, they can do what they want. Enough people say it many more will start believing it.
He's already controlled police shootings on the news.

It's a bigger picture here to be seen. A lot of followers.

 

[BlackGoku]

Trump yells at CIA director over reports intel officials are keeping info from him

Last Updated Feb 17, 2017 7:06 PM EST

This story has been updated with the CIA’s response.

CBS News has learned that on Thursday, an angry President Trump called CIA Director Mike Pompeo and yelled at him for not pushing back hard enough against reports that the intelligence community was withholding information from the commander-in-chief.

The agency then drafted a strongly worded statement rebutting the claim. “We are not aware of any instance when that has occurred,” read Pompeo’s statement. “It is CIA’s mission to provide the President with the best intelligence possible and to explain the basis for that intelligence. The CIA does not, has not, and will never hide intelligence from the President, period.”


Play VIDEO
Trump slams the intel community for leaks to media
On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal had reported that U.S. intelligence officials have kept information from Mr. Trump because they feared it could be leaked or compromised.

CIA spokesman Dean Boyd denied Friday that there was a conversation between Pompeo and Mr. Trump about the article.

“There was no conversation between the CIA Director and the President about the Wall Street Journal article either before or after CIA issued its statement about the article,” Boyd said. “The CIA issued its statement on its own accord because the story was inaccurate and we felt the need to defend the integrity of our officers and institution.”

The reality is, insiders say, that there has been a “chill” in the information flow. Intelligence sources say the agency is intent on protecting information, and if there are concerns it could be compromised, it will be withheld.

The ongoing investigation into whether Trump associates coordinated with the Russians remains a concern for some who handle sensitive data. It can be inferred that there is a lack of trust, and because the CIA has had a role in uncovering signs of Russian cyber intrusions, there are also concerns that sensitive information could be shared with adversaries.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-y...l-officials-are-keeping-information-from-him/

He got the CIA putting out press releases because his feelings are hurt? Man this is playing just like a season of 24. Question is who's going to be Jack Bauer?

 

[roots69]

WOW!! I have to agree with Trump on the media!! The media is killing us, Im glad he said that!! Mothafucka

 

[woodchuck]

I hope everyone is really paying attention. When shit goes bigly sideways, we're gonna be asking, "How the hell did it come to this?!" To quote 3 Stacks: "This is that."

 

[roots69]

Why isnt anyone talking about the economy???

 

[roots69]

Come on yall!!!! Its a distraction!!!!

 

[woodchuck]

Come on yall!!!! Its a distraction!!!!

He's also priming the pump.

 

[Watcher]

WOW!! I have to agree with Trump on the media!! The media is killing us, Im glad he said that!! Mothafucka

Are you high?

The media is killing us...unbelievable. Study history

'Enemies of the people': Trump remark echoes history's worst tyrants

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 after they made a ruling on the Brexit process.

Now the US president, Donald Trump, has deployed the epithet against mainstream US media outlets that he sees as hostile.

"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!" the president wrote on Twitter.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39015559