President Donald Trump's admonished "enemy of the people," the media, fired back Sunday for the claim "they can also cause war," with NBC News' Chuck Todd leading the resistance to rhetoric and another journalist suggesting the "warmongering" is an attempt to obfuscate some other presidential misdeeds.
New York magazine's Jonathan Chait ripped the president for his "bizarre charge of warmongering" and claimed the war remark was President Trump using the North Korea summit news to cover up or distract from other less desirable circumstances for the president, a "Potemkin facade."
CNN's "Reliable Sources" host Brian Stelter, who delves into political media topics every Sunday used the attack to tease his show, which will likely attack back at the president for fueling "rising threats against journalists."
"Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace asked National Security Adviser John Bolton, "ambassador, what wars have we started?"
Bolton did not answer that question directly, but pointed to political "press bias" which is resisting the administration if not directly attacking the president.
"I think the issue of press bias has been around for a long, long time," Bolton told Wallace.
"That's the president's view based on the attacks that the media made on him. . . . I think this kind of adversarial relationship is difficult."
© 2025 Newsmax. All rights reserved.