Trump, Not Media, is Real ‘Enemy of the People’
Stop demonizing journalism!
American democracy continues to carry on in crisis mode under President Trump due to his tyrannical tendencies.
Our First Amendment freedoms are being jeopardized through the suppression of free speech and freedom of the press. This is a dangerous game for the president to play against the sacred principles of the U.S. Constitution.
Trump takes maniacal pleasure in demonizing journalists as “the enemy of the American people.” And, in so doing, he continues to chip away at an integral aspect of a well functioning democratic society.
Trump’s hostile rhetoric toward journalists has historically been used by dictators and despots who aim to silence or shut down the media. But an American president who regularly resorts to such vitriol is sounding a dog whistle for violence against reporters by labeling them as enemies of the state.
This is obviously anathema to democratic practices and principles.
This phenomenon can be observed at Trump rallies when the tweeter-in-chief incites crowds into a frenzy against reporters covering the event.
Any U.S. president who perpetually attacks a free and independent press in such a vicious manner is himself an enemy of the norms and moral values which form the fabric of American democracy — in other words, he’s the real enemy of the people.
To wit: just look at some of Trump’s tweets going back to his first months in office through the present day…
Mr. President, let’s be clear: the mainstream media is not “the enemy of the people” — far from it. The real enemy of the people is YOU, sir!
Even First Daughter and senior advisor Ivanka has begun to distance herself from President Trump’s talking points, causing him to walk back his own words (yet again):
