LIVE! US President Trump calls media 'enemy of the American people'
February 18, 2017  09:48
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US President Donald Trump dubbed the news media "the enemy of the American people" in a Friday afternoon tweet , opening up a new front in an ever-escalating battle with the press.

"The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!" he wrote.

The US president's attack on the media came one day after a wide-ranging press conference from the White House, during which he lambasted news outlets and attempted to discredit a wide range of negative reporting on his administration as "fake news" and "very fake news."
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