Franklin, Andrews, Kramer & Edelstein

[BullNBear52]

It's a love hate relationship.

Nixon despite his claims hated the press. Trump doesn't get it. He is an amatuer playing in a grownup's world. The school yard bully doesn't work in politics.


As presidential historian Michael Beschloss reminded me, the previous gold standard for a president showing contempt for reporters at a news conference was Nixon during Watergate in 1973, when he said just after the Saturday Night Massacre: “Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.”

Trump got into another megalomaniacal “Me the People” swivet Friday, tweeting the “FAKE NEWS media” was “the enemy of the American people!” So Trump is even using the rhetoric of Lenin? Putin is lovely and the press is the Evil Empire?

Beschloss riposted with this tweet: “On December 1972 tape, Nixon told Kissinger, ‘The press is the enemy, the establishment is the enemy, the professors are the enemy.’”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/18/opinion/sunday/trapped-in-trumps-brain.html?ref=opinion