Rants about the “enemy of the people,” “fake news” and “failing” media are nothing new from President Donald Trump.
But on Thursday morning, Trump made a fresh bombastic claim: the media want the U.S. to go to “war” with Russia.
“The Fake News Media wants so badly to see a major confrontation with Russia, even a confrontation that could lead to war,” he said Thursday morning in a series of Twitter outbursts against the coverage of his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Fake News Media wants so badly to see a major confrontation with Russia, even a confrontation that could lead to war. They are pushing so recklessly hard and hate the fact that I’ll probably have a good relationship with Putin. We are doing MUCH better than any other country!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 19, 2018
Despite days of mystifying flip-flops on whether Trump believes his own intelligence community over Putin, he then claimed the media has no interest in reporting that the he has previously acknowledged Russia meddling and thanked his friends at “Fox and Friends” for their coverage.
“Trump recognized Russian Meddling MANY TIMES.” Thank you to @foxandfriends and @FoxNews for actually showing the clips. The Fake News wants no part of that narrative! Too bad they don’t want to focus on all of the ECONOMIC and JOBS records being set.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 19, 2018
Reiterating who the “real enemy of the people” is, Trump touched on an issue that his own officials have been scrambling to resolve in the past 24 hours. On Wednesday, Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. told reporters in Moscow that the Trump and Putin had made several “verbal agreements” during their one-on-one session, without aides. Administration officials have reportedly been unable to produce details on what those agreements might be, but Trump alluded to what was discussed in tweets.
The Summit with Russia was a great success, except with the real enemy of the people, the Fake News Media. I look forward to our second meeting so that we can start implementing some of the many things discussed, including stopping terrorism, security for Israel, nuclear……..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 19, 2018
….proliferation, cyber attacks, trade, Ukraine, Middle East peace, North Korea and more. There are many answers, some easy and some hard, to these problems…but they can ALL be solved!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 19, 2018
