10 reasons why Donald Trump should hate the media

Trump hates the media because they call him out on all the lies he tells. So he continually attacks the press in the hopes that part of the public will therefore not believe it when his lies are exposed. Attacking the media and setting them up as the enemy is a common tactic of dictators who rely on deceit to maintain support. That's why the first thing that happens after a coup is that the TV and radio stations are seized and controlled.

It's almost comical, really. After his own tweets accused the intel community of leaking documents and compared them to nazis, after he kept putting intelligence in quotes, and saying he didn't believe at all their conclusions about Russia's hacking and accused them of being political hacks, Trump goes to the CIA and says that he always has loved the intel comminity and it was the dishonest press that created the false impression that he didn't.

There are many more examples like that. Trump hasn't seemed to have figured out yet that as President, when you make shit up, it has consequences and you get called out on it. And the reason there is freedom of the press in the constitution is so the politicians can be reported on without fear of retaliation. Yet just today, Trump's Chief Strategist Bannon said the press should just shut up. That's what all authoritarian regimes tell the press to do--just shut up.

1776, the second year of the American Revolutionary War, the Virginia colonial legislature passed a Declaration of Rights that included the sentence "The freedom of the press is one of the greatest bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic Governments."

Hahaha! Washington Times doing it's best to be like Fox News. Where were their criticism of journalism and outrage with all the fake news about the Obama family? That's right, they were too spreading false allegations and sourcing blogs and tabloid sites. Also enjoy the 10 reasons include commentary and op-ed sources poking fun of Trump; didn't think that was real journalism. "Slow to retract, correct erroneous stories"? Did Fox News or Washington Times or Trump ever retract any of the erroneous stories they published...nope. Oh how dare they blame liberal media for the crowd size story...hahaha...if only Trump stop mentioning it in his interviews and speeches.