President Donald Trump made it clear he intends to continue to hold the “dishonest” media’s feet to the fire, in his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland on Friday.
“I want you all to know we are fighting the fake news,” he said. “A few days ago I called the fake news the enemy of the people, and they are. They are the enemy of the people. Because they have no sources, they just make them up when there are none.”
He lamented coverage of him by some media misconstruing and changing the meaning of his words. “[They] did not explain that I called the fake news the enemy of the people—the fake news. They dropped off the word ‘fake.’ And all of a sudden the story became ’the media is the enemy.'”
Trump mentioned polling from major media that he said was dishonest, going all the way back to the election season, calling out CBS, ABC, NBC, and even mentioning CNN by his pet-name for them, the “Clinton News Network.”
“Who knows, maybe they’re just bad at polling. Or maybe they’re not legit. But it’s one or the other,” he said.
He also talked about the “false narrative” the media had created during the election season to discourage his supporters from voting, saying, “We have to fight it, folks. We have to fight it.”
