Even by the standards of a president who routinely castigates journalists — on Thursday he devoted much of a 77-minute White House
news conference to criticizing his press coverage — Mr. Trump’s tweet was a striking escalation in his attacks on the news media.
Mr. Trump has regularly referred to the media as the “opposition party” to his administration,
and he has blamed news organizations for stymieing his presidential agenda.
The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!
Restricted to 140 characters, the president removed the word “sick,”
and added two other television networks to his list of offending news organizations.
