ELECTION/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump lashed out at journalists during a surly and contentious news conference at the White House on Wednesday [11-7-18], renewing his attacks on the news media as ‘the enemy of the people’ just moments after pledging an end to partisan politics in the wake of a grueling midterm election. In tense exchanges on live television, Mr. Trump denounced a network correspondent as ‘very rude,’ sternly told several reporters to ‘sit down,’ and at one point stepped away from his lectern, suggesting that he was prepared to cut off the session — a rare formal East Room news conference — because of queries he disliked. Not for the first time, Mr. Trump appeared most incensed by a question from Jim Acosta of CNN, who challenged Mr. Trump’s characterization of a caravan of migrants in Mexico as an imminent ‘invasion.’”
–Michael M. Grynbaum, “‘You Are a Rude, Terrible Person’: After Midterms, Trump Renews His Attacks on the Press,” The New York Times online, November 7, 2018