MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump lashed out at the media Thursday [8-16-18] morning, identifying the ‘fake news’ as ‘the opposition party’ on the same day that hundreds of newspapers nationwide printed editorials critical of the president’s rhetoric towards the media…More than 350 news outlets published editorials Thursday denouncing the president’s threats against the press. The call for the widespread rebuke of the president was spurred by The Boston Globe…The list of outlets publishing editorials refuting the president’s claim that the press is ‘the enemy of the people’ ranges from big-city newspapers like the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune to smaller ones like the Van Buren County Democrat and the Swift County Monitor-News. The president dug into the Globe’s campaign further, saying the newspaper is ‘in collusion’ with other publications for denouncing his insults…Trump continued to bash the press Thursday morning, claiming once again that the media does not report the truth and is instead ‘trying to hurt people.'”
–Rebecca Morin, “Trump labels media ‘the opposition party’ as newspapers push back en masse,” Politico, August 16, 2018 10:29 am