Trump: 'Fake News' Media Are 'Enemy of American People'

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By    |   Friday, 17 February 2017 05:15 PM EST ET

President Donald Trump, continuing his us against the "fake news" media campaign, tweeted Friday evening the "us" in the campaign is actually "U.S." – as in Americans.

The media "is not my enemy" but "the enemy of the American People!" he wrote. 

 

 

Trump also tweeted: 

 

 

The Twitter jabs come one day after a raucous White House press conference Thursday,  where Trump denounced criticism of his administration in "chaos" and said: "This administration is running like a fine-tuned machine."

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Trump is returning to public speaking this weekend, too, holding presidential rallies in South Carolina and Melbourne, Fla., perhaps to recharge his supporters behind his agenda, which has been obstructed by Democrats in Congress and a tone of "hate" by the media.

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