Trump again Threatened Journalists and called The LameStream Media

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The U.S President Donald Trump has tweeted supposedly threat on journalists. He claimed that the LameStream Media is treading on the very dangerous territory by reporting on apparent fractures in the Republican Party and the president’s own poor polling. Trump wrote on Twitter, “The LameStream Media is far beyond Fake News, they are treading on the very dangerous territory”! He retweeted in a separate statement and claimed there is great cohesion inside the Republican Party, and he has the strongest polls. Trump’s attack on media isn’t new for the bombastic president. He regularly spars with the media during interviews and branded the press as an Enemy of the People, for reporting on unsavory aspects of Trump’s presidency. It includes the staggering number of lies and falsehoods he has uttered since becoming president.

A count by the Washington Post has indicated that Trump had lied, exaggerated, or made false claims at least 10,000 times as of late April. It is noteworthy that the Republican Party has seen several high-level resignations in recent months because of Trump’s poor approval rating. It has been at historic lows compared to the former U.S Presidents. The press has also reported extensively on the squalid conditions and treatments of migrants in the United States and at the American border during the presidency of Donald Trump over the president’s rhetorical embrace of white nationalists, and on his racist attacks on women of color in the U.S Congress.

Trump has also directly targeted the press, by terminating access to the White House for journalists. For instance, the White House stopped CNN reporter Jim Acosta’s so-called “hard pass”, after a testy press conference in which Acosta asked the president multiple questions. The White House claimed falsely that the reporter had been physical with an intern who tried to take a microphone from him during that questioning. He later released a doctored video of the event to bolster that claim. The president and his top advisers have all recently been challenging the media on a different front. They claimed the U.S economy is strong in response to reports that analysts have seen signs of an impending recession.