Trump Retweets Hewitt on Mainstream Media Opposing Trump

Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt reported that a disconnect exists between the mainstream media and President Donald Trump's supporters, because mainstream media appears to be convinced that Trump is losing support, which Hewitt claims is not true.

Hewitt made the comments in a number of tweets Thursday night:

#NeverTrumpers elite MSMers and virtue signalers are persuading themselves that @realDonaldTrump supporters are deserting. They are not. 1.

— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) August 18, 2017

I spoke to a group of influential CA GOPers tonight, long time activists, bundlers, influencers. Support for @realDonaldTrump has increased

— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) August 18, 2017

Trump retweeted both of those tweets Friday.

Later, the host tweeted that the mainstream media does not want to see that Trump's supporters continue to favor him, even when they criticize some of his actions.

MSM and polling is missing the "breaking of the world" (to quote the Wheel of Time @CillizzaCNN) when it comes to American politics. It is

— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) August 18, 2017

deep and enduring and the always-berating-@realDonaldTrump media doesn't get it. They don't even want to. It doesn't mean his suppporters

— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) August 18, 2017

aren't critical. They are. Of many things. But @ealDonaldTrump has all the right enemies. It isn't the Alt Right or Alt Left. It's a media

— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) August 18, 2017

story. And the media writer are generally missing it.

— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) August 18, 2017

He said that the mainstream media has a "big problem" in that it is deemed unpopular now runs counter to a large portion of the U.S.

hate MSM. I mean loathe. Not violent loathing. Just disgust. How did elite media separate from 40-50% of the country? It's a big problem.

— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) August 18, 2017

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