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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Mon Jan 7, 2019, 10:10 AM Jan 2019

Trump: 'Fake News Media in Our Country is the Real Opposition Party'...'Enemy of the People!'

Source: Mediaite

by Colby Hall | Jan 7th, 2019, 8:13 am

President Donald Trump started the work week by tweeting an old chestnut designed to appeal to his base of supporters: criticizing the “Fake News & totally dishonest media” for ostensibly ignoring all the “success that our Country is having.” He continued by claiming that “Fake News will knowling lie and demean” his administration’s success resolving with “this is a sad day in America!” Trump initially tweeted:

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He followed this tweet with:

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President Trump appears to be upset with media outlets for not covering a recent and glowing jobs report to the degree that he would prefer. In a vacuum of news, this would certainly get more attention than it has, but the nation is currently in day 17 of a government shutdown over a significant political impasse over Trump’s desire for Congressional funding over a border wall.

Trump critics often see his criticism as a psychological projection which is a defense mechanism in which the human ego denies the existence of negative qualities while attributing them to others. Or, in more layman’s terms, the “best defense is a good offense” approach to political rhetoric.

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Trump: 'Fake News Media in Our Country is the Real Opposition Party'...'Enemy of the People!' (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2019 OP

The phrase "the Enemy of the People" was used as a charge in the Stalinist Soviet Union and ... Botany Jan 2019 #1

Every day you are in The White House "is a sad day in America." Va Lefty Jan 2019 #2

Amen. Scarsdale Jan 2019 #4

Too Bad, So Sad Roy Rolling Jan 2019 #3

Screw him - TheCowsCameHome Jan 2019 #5

IMPEACH!!! We can no longer tolerate a President so clearly against the Constitution PeeJ52 Jan 2019 #6

Why can't the media be real, like Rump's favorite sources -- The Enquirer, Fox, Infowars, Breitbart, Mc Mike Jan 2019 #7

Says the Crazy Lunatic dalton99a Jan 2019 #8

Hey Donnie Shit for Brains; "PLAY FREEBIRD!!!!" maxrandb Jan 2019 #9

"... have become crazed lunatics who have given up on the TRUTH!" area51 Jan 2019 #10

Botany

(70,501 posts)

1. The phrase "the Enemy of the People" was used as a charge in the Stalinist Soviet Union and ...

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Jan 7, 2019, 10:18 AM

Jan 2019

.... Stalin would send people to the Gulags in Siberia for that crime. So why is Trump using
that term?

He and Stephen Miller are trying to incite violence prior to Mueller dropping the hammer.

Va Lefty

(6,252 posts)

2. Every day you are in The White House "is a sad day in America."

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Jan 7, 2019, 10:19 AM

Jan 2019

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)

4. Amen.

Reply to Va Lefty (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 7, 2019, 10:23 AM

Jan 2019

The job opening I am eagerly looking forward to is the one tRump is parked illegally in at the moment. What a great day that will be, seeing him frog marched out of the WH in handcuffs. Pious little Mikey would be next on the list. He is a traitor, too.

Roy Rolling

(6,917 posts)

3. Too Bad, So Sad

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Jan 7, 2019, 10:20 AM

Jan 2019

You fuc*ked with the wrong people, Donny. There's a reason the press is in the FIRST Amendment, the founders envisioned eventually a lunatic would occupy the office of president.