After only a month of sitting in the oval office, President Trump was back on the campaign trail addressing a crowd of supporters at a rally in Melbourne Saturday.
With a crowd estimated by police at about 9000, the president told the cheering crowd that “Media Has Their Agenda, And Their Agenda Is Not Your Agenda; “Fake News” Will Not Get Away With It!”
Overnight NBC News released a segment of today’s Meet the Press interview with Arizona Senator John McCain. McCain said “Suppressing free press is ‘how dictators get started'”
The complete speech by President Trump is at the end of this post.
Here’s a look at some of the morning headlines:
RealClearPolitics: Trump: Media Has Their Agenda, And Their Agenda Is Not Your Agenda; “Fake News” Will Not Get Away With It
President Donald Trump ripped the media at his first post-inauguration rally Saturday evening in Melbourne, Florida. Trump said the media has their own agenda, and it is not “your agenda.” The media could not defeat us during the campaign despite their lies, he said.
New York Post: Trump rallies Florida supporters ‘without the filter of fake news’
President Trump already has 2020 vision.
“They could not defeat us in the primary, they could not defeat us in the general election . . . and most importantly we will continue to win, win, win,” he told supporters at a campaign-style Florida rally Saturday, sounding for all the world as if he’s running for office — again.
Reuters: Suppressing free press is ‘how dictators get started’: Senator McCain
Senator John McCain, defending the media against the latest attack by President Donald Trump, warned that suppressing the free press was “how dictators get started”.
The Arizona Republican, a frequent critic of Trump, was responding to a tweet in which Trump accused the media of being “the enemy of the American people”.
The international order established after World War Two was built in part on a free press, McCain said in an excerpt of an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” that was released in advance of the full Sunday morning broadcast.
Politico: Priebus: Trump’s comments on the media should be taken ‘seriously’
White House chief of staff Reince Priebus said President Donald Trump’s comments on the press being “the enemy” should be taken “seriously,” while criticizing journalists’ use of unnamed sources.
In an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation” to be broadcast Sunday, host John Dickerson asked Priebus whether the American people should take Trump seriously after he tweeted that the press “is the enemy of the American people” on Friday.
AP Video: Four weeks into his administration, President Trump held a campaign rally Saturday, telling the crowd packed into an airport hangar in central Florida that he wanted to be among friends
Here’s the entire speech by President Trump to supporters in Melbourne
https://youtu.be/TkSajyh2_40
