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Trump attacks media again: “I’m President, and they’re not”

Published 09:25 2 Jul 2017 BST

Updated 09:26 2 Jul 2017 BST

Rory Cashin
Trump attacks media again: “I’m President, and they’re not”

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Another day, another example of Trump using any given opportunity to call out the "Fake News" agenda.

An event held at the Kennedy Centre in Washington to honour military veterans on Saturday was yet another soapbox for President Trump to fire back at the media who he believes are treating him unfairly. “The fake media is trying to silence us, but we will not let them. The fake media tried to stop us from going to the White House. But I’m president, and they’re not." Which, on a fundamental level, is true. The media is not the President. However, the irony here is that Trump has since stopped the certain parts of the media from going to the White House and reporting on his press briefings. All of this came, of course, with an accompanying series of tweets: All of this occurred just days after Trump was told off by fellow members of the Republican party that his personal attacks on certain reporters had crossed a line, to which Trump didn't only not apologise, but continued to hurl abuse at those reporters on twitter. Once again, people called him out for his behaviour online, stating that these particular tweets were not particularly Presidential, and that maybe he shouldn't be using his personal account to make personal remarks about members of the public like that. Did Trump respond? Yes. How did he respond? How do you think he responded...  

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Trump attacks media again: "I'm President, and they're not"