The Trump Administration
WarOnNews
WarOnNews
The ongoing battle against the fourth estate.
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Wednesday 15 May 2019
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Friday 29 March 2019
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Tuesday 26 March 2019
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Monday 4 March 2019
“It’s changed a lot. Before, it was conservative, but it wasn’t crazy. Now it’s just propaganda.”
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Friday 22 February 2019
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Wednesday 20 February 2019
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Tuesday 19 February 2019
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Monday 18 February 2019
"THE RIGGED AND CORRUPT MEDIA IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!" Trump had tweeted following Baldwin's impersonation of him.
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Tuesday 12 February 2019
Ron wasn't Ron. Ron was the media. And the media are fair game, aren't they?
Videos shows the man bursting into the press corral at the El Paso event, pushing a BBC photographer, and yelling "Fuck the media" as the crowd jeers.
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Monday 11 February 2019
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Friday 8 February 2019
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Thursday 7 February 2019
In the AMI letters I’m making public, you will see the precise details of their extortionate proposal
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Monday 28 January 2019
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Sunday 27 January 2019
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Wednesday 23 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 33
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Tuesday 22 January 2019
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Saturday 19 January 2019
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Friday 18 January 2019
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Thursday 17 January 2019
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Monday 14 January 2019
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Sunday 13 January 2019
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Saturday 12 January 2019
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...conceded Friday he didn't really know why the network turned him down.
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Friday 11 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 21
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Thursday 10 January 2019
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Acosta [...] said in his video that he did not "see anything resembling a national emergency situation."
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Wednesday 9 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 19
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Monday 7 January 2019
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Saturday 5 January 2019
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Friday 4 January 2019
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Tuesday 1 January 2019
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Monday 31 December 2018
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Thursday 27 December 2018
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Tuesday 25 December 2018
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Monday 24 December 2018
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Saturday 22 December 2018
Government Shutdown Day 1
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Thursday 20 December 2018
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Tuesday 18 December 2018
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Sunday 16 December 2018
It was the real-world embodiment of the fantasy online world of trolls, Russian and domestic, who polluted the political discourse.
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Saturday 15 December 2018
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Thursday 13 December 2018
“I think it’s amazing because I only get bad news. I only get bad stories. Look at the paper, it’s all nonsense,”
Day 691
Tuesday 11 December 2018
More than ever before, in the Trump era the right needs rank-and-file conservatives to distrust any information they receive from non-conservative sources
...saying he wants to scour their social media to see if they're biased against conservatives.
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Sunday 9 December 2018
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Thursday 6 December 2018
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Wednesday 28 November 2018
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Monday 26 November 2018
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Sunday 25 November 2018
...follow-up questions are “where the questioner can refine, seek detail, challenge inconsistency and pursue further explanation of what has been said — or not said — in the initial response.”
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Wednesday 21 November 2018
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Monday 19 November 2018
The letter also outlined new rules for reporters at presidential news conferences, including limiting each journalist to one question with follow-ups coming "at the discretion of the president or other White House officials taking questions."
Day 668
Sunday 18 November 2018
White House officials sent Acosta a letter stating that his pass is set to be suspended again once the restraining order expires.
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Saturday 17 November 2018
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Friday 16 November 2018
The White House said it would follow the court order and "temporarily reinstate the reporter's hard pass."
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Thursday 15 November 2018
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Wednesday 14 November 2018
The White House asserts that it can pick and choose which journalists are given a permanent pass to cover it
Day 663
Tuesday 13 November 2018
Less than a week ago, it was primarily about him supposedly placing his hands on and getting too rough with an intern.
The lawsuit is a response to the White House's suspension of Acosta's press pass, known as a Secret Service "hard pass," last week.
Day 661
Sunday 11 November 2018
With subpoena power and public hearings, the incoming House Democratic majority can demand emails and testimony to see if Trump used “the instruments of state power to punish the press”
Day 659
Friday 9 November 2018
Trump's unprecedented threat poses a serious challenge to the White House press corps and the association that represents them.
Day 658
Thursday 8 November 2018
Trump supporters accused me of smearing his campaign manager. Today they’re smearing Jim Acosta.
Sanders tweeted out the doctored video, writing, “We will not tolerate the inappropriate behavior clearly documented in this video.”
Day 657
Wednesday 7 November 2018
...explaining the decision was a result of both Acosta's behavior and him yanking back when a White House intern tried to take his microphone.
He mocked Republican candidates who distanced themselves from him, chided a reporter for asking a "racist question" and walked away from the lectern at one point, as an aide tried to wrest a microphone out of a reporter's hands.
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Tuesday 6 November 2018
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Monday 5 November 2018
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Thursday 1 November 2018
"And he’s saying, if you don’t want to be called the enemy, then get the story right, be accurate and report the story the way that I want it reported."
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Monday 29 October 2018
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Sunday 28 October 2018
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Friday 26 October 2018
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Thursday 25 October 2018
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Wednesday 24 October 2018
Pipe bombs were sent to several prominent Democrats, including former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, setting off an intense investigation on Wednesday into whether figures vilified by the right were being targeted.
Day 641
Monday 22 October 2018
Miller is unlikely to prevail, because there are broad protections for journalists to report on claims made in legal filings, whether or not they are true. But it’s still worth taking seriously, because it’s part of a mounting conservative assault on free speech.
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Sunday 21 October 2018
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Wednesday 17 October 2018
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Sunday 14 October 2018
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Wednesday 10 October 2018
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Saturday 6 October 2018
The killing, if confirmed, would mark a startling escalation of Saudi Arabia’s effort to silence dissent.
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Thursday 4 October 2018
Imagine the volume of lies we’d be subjected to if these “daily” briefings happened more frequently than once every few weeks.
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Wednesday 3 October 2018
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Tuesday 2 October 2018
"That’s okay. I know you’re not thinking, you never do," Trump replied.
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Saturday 29 September 2018
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Wednesday 26 September 2018
Last year, his administration gave credentials to both Infowars and far-right blog Gateway Pundit, whose DC correspondent Lucian Wintrich characterized its mission to the New York Times as “doing a little trolling of the media in general here.” So it’s far from a surprise that TruNews was able to get in the room in the first place or that Trump took Szall’s question.
The press really did change in the 1960s—for the better.
Journalism, once the servant of established power, became over those two key decades its opponent and judge.
Day 606
Monday 17 September 2018
Russia has begun laying the groundwork for an online influence operation aimed at turning U.S. public opinion against such a strike.
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Sunday 16 September 2018
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Friday 14 September 2018
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Thursday 6 September 2018
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Wednesday 5 September 2018
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Tuesday 4 September 2018
Tuesday marks at least the second time in the past year Trump has suggested that NBC's license should be scrutinized.
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Monday 3 September 2018
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Friday 31 August 2018
During his remarks, Trump derided “fake news,” a term he said applies to “85 percent” of the media — up from his estimate of 80 percent last week.
Day 588
Thursday 30 August 2018
"You’re the enemy of the people, and we’re going to kill every f—ing one of you. Hey, why don’t you call the F, why don’t you call Mueller, maybe he can help you out buddy. Still there f—–? Alright, why, you going to trace my call? What are you going to do motherf—–? You ain’t going to do s—. I’m going to shoot you in the f—— head later today, at 4 o’clock. Goodbye."
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Wednesday 29 August 2018
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Tuesday 28 August 2018
The announcement puts the search giant squarely in the White House’s crosshairs amid wider allegations against the tech industry that it systematically discriminates against conservatives on social media and other platforms.
Another possibility is that Trump just had a historically bad week
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Saturday 25 August 2018
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Friday 24 August 2018
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Tuesday 21 August 2018
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Sunday 19 August 2018
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Saturday 18 August 2018
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Thursday 16 August 2018
Newspapers and media outlets across the U.S. launched a widespread effort Thursday aimed at combating the constant attacks from President Donald Trump as well as negative feelings about the media's role in society.
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Monday 13 August 2018
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Saturday 11 August 2018
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Wednesday 8 August 2018
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Sunday 5 August 2018
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Thursday 2 August 2018
The White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, declined to say when pressed by CNN's Jim Acosta whether she considered the press to be the "enemy" of the American people, something President Donald Trump has asserted in the past.
Day 559
Wednesday 1 August 2018
As security looked on, supporters wearing MAGA hats and holding signs peddling popular rightwing conspiracy theories jeered and swore at the assembled press, with many of the mainly white crowd holding up a middle finger.
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Tuesday 31 July 2018
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Sunday 29 July 2018
And it apparently touched a nerve: The president fired off a series of angry tweets in the afternoon, accusing newspapers of being unpatriotic.
I told him that although the phrase “fake news” is untrue and harmful, I am far more concerned about his labeling journalists “the enemy of the people.” I warned that this inflammatory language is contributing to a rise in threats against journalists and will lead to violence.
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Saturday 28 July 2018
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Thursday 26 July 2018
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Wednesday 25 July 2018
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Tuesday 24 July 2018
He raged at his staff for violating a rule that the White House entourage should begin each trip tuned to Fox
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Monday 23 July 2018
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Sunday 22 July 2018
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Friday 20 July 2018
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Thursday 19 July 2018
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Wednesday 18 July 2018
Bogacheva and Arsov are among more than 20 people being looked at in two overlapping investigations in Macedonia
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Tuesday 17 July 2018
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Sunday 15 July 2018
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Saturday 14 July 2018
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Friday 13 July 2018
“CNN is fake news. I don’t take questions from CNN,” Trump responded. “Let’s go to a real network,” he added, giving a question to John Roberts of Fox News.
Day 536
Monday 9 July 2018
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Saturday 7 July 2018
Trump wants Twitter to delete the New York Times’ and the Washington Post’s accounts.
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Friday 6 July 2018
"The crooked press." "They are so dishonest." "Fake news." "Bad people."
Day 530
Tuesday 3 July 2018
Less than 24 hours earlier, the City of Annapolis had confirmed to NPR that the president had declined its request.
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Monday 2 July 2018
...its staff also wrote that the paper will never forget the influx of "death threats and emails from people we don’t know celebrating our loss."
Day 526
Friday 29 June 2018
..the US is now the third deadliest country for journalists in 2018, behind only Afghanistan [...] and Syria
Day 525
Thursday 28 June 2018
A law enforcement official said the suspect had mutilated his fingers in a possible effort to thwart identification.
Day 524
Wednesday 27 June 2018
Andrew Anglin, the neo-Nazi editor of the Daily Stormer, was especially pleased. He wrote that “killing journalists is an awesome position to promote”
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Saturday 23 June 2018
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Friday 22 June 2018
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Thursday 21 June 2018
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Wednesday 20 June 2018
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Sunday 17 June 2018
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Friday 15 June 2018
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Wednesday 13 June 2018
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Monday 11 June 2018
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Friday 8 June 2018
“Seizing a journalist’s records sends a terrible message to the public and should never be considered except as the last resort in a truly essential investigation”
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Wednesday 6 June 2018
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Saturday 2 June 2018
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Thursday 31 May 2018
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Tuesday 29 May 2018
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Saturday 26 May 2018
The senior White House official cited by the Times spoke to dozens of reporters Thursday at the White House and on a conference call to brief them on Trump’s decision earlier that day to cancel his June 12 summit in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
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Sunday 20 May 2018
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Saturday 19 May 2018
“The president is using his official office to attempt to retaliate against the second-largest US company to the tune of billions because he views its owner as a political opponent”
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Friday 18 May 2018
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Tuesday 15 May 2018
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Monday 14 May 2018
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Friday 11 May 2018
The U.S. Postal Service says that its large financial losses are caused by market forces and governmental constraints but not Amazon.com, in a release of its quarterly statistics that stood in contrast to pointed statements made by President Trump.
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Thursday 10 May 2018
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Wednesday 9 May 2018
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Friday 4 May 2018
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Monday 30 April 2018
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Sunday 29 April 2018
In: Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ tough-on-crime policies. Out: A section titled “Need for Free Press and Public Trial.” References to the department’s work on racial gerrymandering are gone.
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Saturday 28 April 2018
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Saturday 21 April 2018
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Friday 20 April 2018
Trump said he believes reporters who write about leaks should spend "a couple days in jail."
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Sunday 15 April 2018
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Thursday 12 April 2018
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Wednesday 11 April 2018
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Sunday 8 April 2018
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Friday 6 April 2018
One of the other points that DHS wants to be able to search is the "sentiment" of a story. Was a writer's take on events pro-America or not? Did a columnist write an op-ed that looked on President Trump's latest policy trainwreck unfavorably?
Day 441
Thursday 5 April 2018
Trump’s savage attacks on Jeff Bezos and Amazon mark a sharp escalation in the president’s attacks on the free press.
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Tuesday 3 April 2018
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Monday 2 April 2018
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Saturday 31 March 2018
Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner or operator of nearly 200 television stations in the U.S., would be forcing its news anchors to record a promo about “the troubling trend of irresponsible, one sided news stories plaguing our country.”
In a pair of morning tweets sent during his drive from his Mar-a-Lago estate to the nearby Trump International Golf Club, the president argued that Amazon costs the U.S. Postal Service billions of dollars in potential revenue.
Trump has repeatedly advanced this theory, even though officials have explained to him that Amazon’s contracts with the Postal Service are profitable.
Day 434
Thursday 29 March 2018
Trump's disdain for Amazon and CEO Jeff Bezos was already well-known. Bezos owns The Washington Post, whose coverage of the president has been less-than-glowing
Day 431
Monday 26 March 2018
"Why should we in this room and, more importantly, the American people, trust anything this administration is telling them?"
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Sunday 11 March 2018
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Saturday 10 March 2018
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Tuesday 6 March 2018
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Thursday 1 March 2018
That Nunes would leak Warner’s confidential text messages is ironic, given that he spent much of 2017 running interference for Trump by publicly claiming his campaign officials had their privacy violated when their names appeared in intelligence reports.
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Thursday 22 February 2018
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Tuesday 20 February 2018
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Sunday 11 February 2018
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Wednesday 17 January 2018
The “highly anticipated” list was basically a roundup of since-corrected reporting errors.
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Sunday 14 January 2018
Within minutes, the Journal released audio from the interview that seemed to clearly show Trump’s comment had been reported right the first time.
Day 354
Monday 8 January 2018
Use really strong adjectives. Repeat them.
Be offended. Be very offended.
Don't answer the question. Then act like the interviewer won't let you answer the question.
Day 353
Sunday 7 January 2018
CNN’s Jake Tapper ... cut the conversation off after 12 and a half minutes, telling Miller he was spewing rhetoric solely to gain approval from the President.
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Tuesday 2 January 2018
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Sunday 24 December 2017
“Grow up sir. Have you no sense of decency? Go spend time with your family.”
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Wednesday 13 December 2017
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Tuesday 12 December 2017
“Sarah Huckabee Sanders, pulled me aside ... And she warned me that if I asked the president a question at this pool spray, as we call them, that she could not promise that I would be allowed into a pool spray again,”
Day 324
Saturday 9 December 2017
Trump on Saturday slammed CNN for having to correct a report about his son Donald Trump Jr. on Friday, saying the network made a "vicious and purposeful mistake."
Day 323
Friday 8 December 2017
Authoritarian rulers across the globe are adopting President Donald Trump’s favorite phrase to limit free speech, with prominent leaders or state media in at least 15 countries using his “fake news” line to denounce their critics
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Saturday 2 December 2017
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Wednesday 29 November 2017
"Great, and we should boycott Fake News CNN. Dealing with them is a total waste of time!"
Day 313
Tuesday 28 November 2017
“In light of the President's continued attacks on freedom of the press and CNN, we do not feel it is appropriate to celebrate with him as his invited guests. We will send a White House reporting team to the event and report on it if news warrants.”
Day 312
Monday 27 November 2017
In a series of interviews over two weeks, the woman shared a dramatic story about an alleged sexual relationship with Moore in 1992 that led to an abortion when she was 15.
Phillips also repeatedly asked the reporter to guarantee her that Moore would lose the election if she came forward.
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Saturday 25 November 2017
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Tuesday 21 November 2017
Telling the Justice Department to go to court to block a business transaction because of his personal animus toward a news organization, if proven, would constitute a clear-cut abuse of presidential power.
Day 305
Monday 20 November 2017
The move comes amid a growing political storm over whether the Trump administration has tried to use its review of the merger to force the sale of CNN, a frequent target of the president's media criticism.
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Wednesday 15 November 2017
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Wednesday 8 November 2017
Three people from the companies said Wednesday that the department insisted that AT&T divest either CNN’s parent company, Turner Broadcasting, or its valuable DirecTV service in return for approval.
Adding to the chill was the lack of a compelling legal justification for the department’s conditions, which appeared to come out of the blue.
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Tuesday 17 October 2017
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Friday 13 October 2017
"The president may decide he can walk away from his oath of office, but the FCC commissioners have also sworn to uphold the Constitution. Despite this, they are AWOL. Why the silence from the Republicans at the FCC?"
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Thursday 12 October 2017
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Wednesday 11 October 2017
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Tuesday 10 October 2017
The subtext of all of this is: How dare you criticize the president? He is doing important things, and speaking out against him only undermines his efforts to “Make America Great Again.”
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Saturday 7 October 2017
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Wednesday 4 October 2017
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Saturday 30 September 2017
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Monday 25 September 2017
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Friday 22 September 2017
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Friday 15 September 2017
Trump’s tweets were the president’s first comments on the dispute between the White House and ESPN’s Jemele Hill, a black journalist who co-hosts “SportsCenter.”
Hill called Trump “a white supremacist” on Monday. She accused him of surrounding himself with white supremacists and said he is “the most ignorant, offensive president of my lifetime” whose presidency is “a direct result of white supremacy.”
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Tuesday 12 September 2017
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Wednesday 6 September 2017
To state the obvious, these are potentially dangerous comments from Limbaugh, who is based in Palm Beach, Fla. He is encouraging listeners who might be in Irma's path not to take seriously the official guidance disseminated through the media.
Jones's contention is that the government — or, more precisely, the “deep state,” now that Trump is president — uses its “weather weapon” to stoke fear of climate change and promote a liberal agenda.
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Wednesday 30 August 2017
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Wednesday 23 August 2017
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Tuesday 22 August 2017
“The only people giving a platform to these hate groups is the media itself and the fake news”
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Monday 21 August 2017
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Sunday 20 August 2017
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Saturday 19 August 2017
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Thursday 17 August 2017
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Monday 7 August 2017
"Thank you for joining us as we provide the news of the week from Trump Tower here in New York."
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Sunday 6 August 2017
“We don’t prosecute journalists for doing their jobs,” Mr. Rosenstein said on “Fox News Sunday.” “That’s not our goal here.”
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Friday 4 August 2017
With Obama gone and Clinton back home in Chappaqua, that role is now filled by the “violent left” and the media. Since the violent left is a bit nebulous, it seems that the media will enjoy the majority of the NRA’s focus.
Sessions has come under harsh criticism from President Trump, who accuses him of (among other things) not doing enough to plug leaks.
Day 195
Wednesday 2 August 2017
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Tuesday 1 August 2017
The Fox News Channel and a wealthy supporter of President Trump worked in concert under the watchful eye of the White House to concoct a story about the murder of a young Democratic National Committee aide
Day 188
Wednesday 26 July 2017
The intimidation of journalists has escalated on Capitol Hill in recent weeks as the Senate has inched toward voting on Trumpcare.
Day 187
Tuesday 25 July 2017
Trump appeared to be referring to a Post story last week on the phasing out of a covert Obama administration program in which the CIA armed and trained moderate Syrian rebels battling forces loyal to Assad in the country’s civil war. The Post reported that the Russian government had long opposed the program, seeing it as an assault on its interests.
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Monday 24 July 2017
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Sunday 23 July 2017
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Saturday 22 July 2017
The president's defense of his pardon powers came days after The Post reported that he and his legal team have discussed his power to pardon aides, family members and, possibly, even himself.
In another tweet, Trump continued his campaign to discredit the investigation as based on leaks of information from political enemies aimed at undermining him.
In yet another tweet, Trump attacked the Times for reports that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, whose death in a Russian airstrike had been speculated last month, is still alive
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Sunday 16 July 2017
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Wednesday 12 July 2017
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Tuesday 11 July 2017
A handful of Republican operatives close to the White House are scrambling to Trump Jr.’s defense and have begun what could be an extensive campaign to try to discredit some of the journalists who have been reporting on the matter.
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Monday 10 July 2017
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Saturday 8 July 2017
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Friday 7 July 2017
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Thursday 6 July 2017
While this is the first time the administration has publicly declared its interest in using the Justice Department as a tool for stifling dissent, Trump has been encouraging Time Warner to discipline its news network for months now.
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Sunday 2 July 2017
Trump on Sunday tweeted a video of a WWE broadcast that had been edited to show him beating up a man with a CNN logo on his face.
"It is a sad day when the President of the United States encourages violence against reporters. Clearly, Sarah Huckabee Sanders lied when she said the President had never done so. Instead of preparing for his overseas trip, his first meeting with Vladimir Putin, ‎dealing with North Korea and working on his health care bill, he is involved in juvenile behavior far below the dignity of his office. We will keep doing our jobs. He should start doing his."
Link to video of Trump assaulting man with CNN logo superimposed over his face.
It seems clear, at this point, that the White House would prefer not to hold regular press briefings. But President Trump and his aides do not want to be the ones to pull the plug. They want journalists to do it.
Day 163
Saturday 1 July 2017
“The fake media is trying to silence us,” Mr. Trump told the crowd at the concert hall ... “But we will not let them. Because the people know the truth. The fake media tried to stop us from going to the White House. But I’m president and they’re not.”
Day 162
Friday 30 June 2017
“We got a call that ‘hey the National Enquirer is going to run a negative story about you guys,’” Scarborough said. “And they said ‘if you call the president up and you apologize for your coverage then he would pick up the phone and basically spike this story.’”
Day 160
Wednesday 28 June 2017
While the Seattle-based company fought for years against efforts to collect sales tax on internet sales, Amazon now does so in all 45 states (plus the District of Columbia) that levy sales taxes, even though it's not legally required to.
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Tuesday 27 June 2017
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Monday 26 June 2017
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Friday 23 June 2017
"As he said yesterday, the president is very supportive of the draft Senate health-care bill, which represents the next step in repealing and replacing Obamacare."
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Thursday 22 June 2017
...the administration announced that Thursday's press briefing by Sarah Huckabee Sanders would be one such no-video affair, then introduced a Kafka-esque twist by declaring that the announcement itself was "NOT REPORTABLE."
Day 151
Monday 19 June 2017
For four days last week, representatives for President Trump skipped the usual on-camera briefing to take questions off-camera.
In response to networks like CNN that decided to broadcast audio of the briefing, even without a visual to accompany, the White House barred attendees from doing that, too.
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Friday 16 June 2017
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Thursday 15 June 2017
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Tuesday 13 June 2017
...a dramatic and unexplained break with tradition that was soon reversed amid a wide rebuke from journalists, Democratic lawmakers and free-speech advocates.
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Tuesday 6 June 2017
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Monday 5 June 2017
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Monday 29 May 2017
Trump, unlike most politicians and, frankly, most people, will nonchalantly argue two logically inconsistent points at the same time.
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Sunday 28 May 2017
Trump has been plagued with a series of leaks coming from sources within the White House since being inaugurated as president.
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Friday 12 May 2017
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Wednesday 10 May 2017
The result was a public relations coup of sorts for Russia and Mr. Lavrov in particular
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Friday 5 May 2017
Sorry for the inconvenience, but I am unable to change any of the monitors to any other news source at this time.
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Thursday 4 May 2017
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Sunday 30 April 2017
Trump is a public official ... To sue, he would have to meet a high bar ... But he has been talking about changing the law for months.
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Saturday 29 April 2017
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Monday 24 April 2017
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Sunday 23 April 2017
“I’ve always said he’s just creating a negotiating position by calling the press the enemy of the people. I don’t think he believes that deep down.”
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Friday 21 April 2017
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Thursday 20 April 2017
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Monday 17 April 2017
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Sunday 16 April 2017
You can’t spend more than a year attacking the credibility of the “dishonest media” and then expect to use its journalism as support for your position during an international crisis — at least not with any success.
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Sunday 2 April 2017
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Saturday 1 April 2017
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Thursday 30 March 2017
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Wednesday 29 March 2017
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Tuesday 28 March 2017
“If the president puts Russian salad dressing on his salad tonight, somehow that's a Russian connection.”
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Friday 10 March 2017
“[He] now does an impression where whenever I’m bothering him he says, ‘fake news,’”
'They may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now.'
Day 40
Tuesday 28 February 2017
“He started laughing about that Seal,” said The Examiner’s "informed official" source.
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Monday 27 February 2017
"Every time he tweets, it drives subscriptions wildly"
“I consider the media to be indispensable to democracy. That we need the media to hold people like me to account”
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Sunday 26 February 2017
This, Bannon explained, is how you “weaponise” the narrative you want. With hard researched facts.
...the Times’ ad campaign ... is focused on the importance of the truth, and independent journalists’ role in finding it
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Saturday 25 February 2017
Ronald Reagan was the last president to skip the dinner ... because he was recovering from a gunshot wound in a failed assassination attempt on his life less than a month earlier.
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Friday 24 February 2017
Sit down everybody. C'mon. You know the dishonest media they'll say, "He didn't get a standing ovation." You know why? No -- you know why? Because everybody stood and nobody sat. So they will say, "He never got a standing ovation," right?. They are the worst.
And I want you all to know that we are fighting the fake news. It's fake, phony, fake.
I saw one story recently where they said, "Nine people have confirmed." There're no nine people. I don't believe there was one or two people. Nine people. And I said, "Give me a break." Because I know the people, I know who they talk to. There were no nine people. But they say "nine people." And somebody reads it and they think, "Oh, nine people. They have nine sources."
They shouldn't be allowed to use sources unless they use somebody's name. Let their name be put out there. Let their name be put out.
And they shouldn't use sources. They should put the name of the person. You will see stories dry up like you've never seen before.
But the First Amendment gives all of us -- it gives it to me, it gives it to you, it gives it to all Americans, the right to speak our minds freely. It gives you the right and me the right to criticize fake news and criticize it strongly.
We don't win anymore. When was the last time we won? Did we win a war? Did we win anything? Do we win anything? We're going to win. We're going on win big, folks. We're going to start winning again, believe me. We're gonna win.
But with the Keystone -- so they spent hundreds of millions of dollars with bloodsucker consultants -- you know, sucking the blood out of the company, don't worry, I've used them all my life, OK? Don't worry, we're going to get it approved, I'm connected, I'm a lobbyist, don't worry.
“Conservative, liberal or otherwise, that’s what makes a democracy a democracy versus a dictatorship.”
“This White House doesn’t seem to value a free press. There’s a word for this. The word is ‘un-American.’ ”
Day 34
Wednesday 22 February 2017
...the new slogan speaks to the paper’s commitment to keep shining the light on pursuit of the truth.
Day 33
Tuesday 21 February 2017
“I was curious if the president regrets or wants to clarify his characterization … of the media as an enemy of the American people.”
Day 32
Monday 20 February 2017
Day 31
Sunday 19 February 2017
“The press is your enemy,” Nixon said during his first term. “Enemies. Understand that? … Now, never act that way … give them a drink, you know, treat them nice, you just love it, you're trying to be helpful. But don't help the bastards. Ever. Because they're trying to stick the knife right in our groin.”
Day 30
Saturday 18 February 2017
His objection is to objectivity itself. He’s perfectly happy for the media to be disgusting and corrupt — so long as it’s on his side.
"...if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press," McCain said in the interview. "And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started."
Day 29
Friday 17 February 2017
Although Trump has long colorfully criticized news coverage and sparred with reporters who question him, he had not yet labeled the fourth estate as being an enemy of the country.
Day 28
Thursday 16 February 2017
The press has become so dishonest that if we don't talk about, we are doing a tremendous disservice to the American people. Tremendous disservice.
As you know, our administration inherited many problems across government and across the economy. To be honest, I inherited a mess. It's a mess.
I just want to let you know, I inherited a mess.
They've spread like cancer. ISIS has spread like cancer - another mess I inherited.
I'm here following through on what I pledged to do. That's all I'm doing. I put it out before the American people, got 306 electoral college votes. I wasn't supposed to get 222. They said there's no way to get 222, 230's impossible. 270 which you need, that was laughable. We got 306 because people came out and voted like they've never seen before so that's the way it goes.
This administration is running like a fine-tuned machine, despite the fact that I can't get my Cabinet approved.
So we've begun preparing to repeal and replace Obamacare, and are deep in the midst of negotiations on a very historic tax reform to bring our jobs back, to bring our jobs back to this country. Big league.
Russia is fake news. Russia -- this is fake news put out by the media.
Well the leaks are real. You're the one that wrote about them and reported them, I mean the leaks are real. You know what they said, you saw it and the leaks are absolutely real. The news is fake because so much of the news is fake.
“Gen. Flynn is a wonderful man,” Trump said. “I think he's been treated very, very unfairly by the media — as I call it, the fake media — in many cases.”
Day 27
Wednesday 15 February 2017
The absence of coverage given to left-leaning or centrist news organisations at recent press conferences has prompted accusations that the President is avoiding “tough questions”.
Day 24
Sunday 12 February 2017
Day 22
Friday 10 February 2017
Reached for comment this afternoon, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said, "We continue to be disgusted by CNN's fake news reporting."
Day 19
Tuesday 7 February 2017
Trump and his staff have repeatedly used the term "fake news" to discredit reporting on the presidential administration from mainstream outlets such as CNN and The New York Times, often offering no evidence to back up their disputes with those outlets' stories.
Day 18
Monday 6 February 2017
With his comments on Monday, Trump implied that the media is complicit in making terrorists successful. It’s part of a recent pattern of suggesting that others are standing in the way of his terrorism-fighting efforts
The irony here is that there’s one person we know for sure has paid people to show up and voice a prefabricated political message: Donald Trump. In the summer of 2015, Trump arranged for actors to show up at Trump Tower and cheer and wave signs as he announced his candidacy for president, offering them $50 for their services.
Day 17
Sunday 5 February 2017
...this approach began, not by accident, with an assault on the press and intelligence community, two entities in American society that traditional provide the verified facts that are the basis for policy decisions.
Day 13
Wednesday 1 February 2017
Adler said Reuter’s central mission would not change amid these circumstances because it already knows how to report in countries in “which the media is unwelcome and frequently under attack.”
Day 12
Tuesday 31 January 2017
But, he added "I'm not going to sit around and engage with people who have no desire to actually get something right."
Day 10
Sunday 29 January 2017
Day 9
Saturday 28 January 2017
Day 8
Friday 27 January 2017
Day 7
Thursday 26 January 2017
“I want you to quote this,” Mr. Bannon added. “The media here is the opposition party.”
Day 2
Saturday 21 January 2017
He also called journalists “among the most dishonest human beings on earth,” and he said that up to 1.5 million people had attended his inauguration, a claim that photographs disproved.
What Trump delivered Saturday was a campaign-style, stream-of-consciousness airing of grievances