Trump Calls Those Who Oppose His Tweeting ‘The Enemies’

Nearly two-thirds of Americans disapprove of Donald Trump's tweeting. But after Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt misleadingly said, “A lot of people like it,” Trump denounced the opponents as “the enemies.” Not one of the three Fox cohosts conducting the interview challenged him.

In Part two of their interview with him today, the Trump TV lapdogs at Fox & Friends brought up his tweeting. Transcript below via The Washington Post, with light copy edits and my emphases added:

BRIAN KILMEADE: Let’s talk about you Tweeting, if we could. You’ve attacked, recently, McCain, the FBI, Democrats. Is there a method to the attacks or is it just venting?

TRUMP: No method, really. It’s just—it’s not venting either.

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But it does allow me to go around dishonest media. I don’t have to go around you folks. I don’t have to go around a lot of the media.

But I do have to go around some media. And it does allow me to do that, because the following is so large, between Twitter and Facebook and all of the different things. I have so many millions of people, it allows me to give a message without necessarily having to go through people where I’m giving them a message and they’re putting it down differently from what I mean. I do.

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