A nasty man

Donald Trump ramped up his attack on the media on Thursday night, criticizing the press as “fake, fake, disgusting news” and describing journalists in attendance as “horrible, horrendous people”, despite UN experts warning earlier in the day that his actions were putting journalists at risk.

  The Guardian

There ought to be a law.

Nominally appearing in Wilkes-Barre, in Pennsylvania, to support a Republican candidate for the US Senate, Trump instead spent more than 15 minutes listing a series of grievances with the press, inducing angry chanting from the crowd towards the assembled media.

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“They can make anything bad. Because they are the fake, fake, disgusting news,” Trump said. The insult prompted wild applause, as did his series of other denunciations of the press, which Trump continued despite widely shared videos showing the crowd at a Trump rally in Florida on Tuesday using aggressive language and gestures towards the CNN correspondent Jim Acosta.

During the middle of his speech on Thursday Trump pointed to the press area in the middle of the arena as he recalled the skepticism around his chances of victory in November 2016.

“Even these people back there, these horrible, horrendous people,” Trump said, would agree “there has never been anything like what happened in November”, Trump said.

Perhaps we were just lucky until then.

During his lengthy diatribe Trump referenced his meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un – which was widely criticized as having achieved little – in furthering his characterization of the media and “fake news”. Trump claimed he had returned to DC from the Singapore summit and told his wife, Melania, that he was excited to see the media coverage.

“I just stopped missiles from being launched every two seconds,” Trump quoted himself as saying to his wife.

“‘And baby, I got the hostages back’,” Trump said. “‘And you know what, honey, they’re not testing any more nuclear.’”

“Oh the media is gonna finally treat me so good,” Trump recalled himself saying. “I’m looking forward to waking up tomorrow and reading those dying papers.”

Instead, Trump said, he faced “only negativity” from the “fake news”.

Disgusting POS.  And his disgusting spokesperson.