Donald Trump launched his latest attack on the news media while speaking to a crowd at a Turning Point Action event at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, on Saturday evening.
In a video of his speech that was shared widely on social media, Trump referred to journalists as a "bunch of very dishonest, crooked bastards" and bragged about contributing to public distrust in the media.
Jack Posobiec is on December 4, 2021.
The former president said that the country was at a very dangerous place. We don't have a press. The press is corrupt.
Trump bragged about tanking the approval ratings of the press before saying that journalists are the most dishonest group of people.
He said that he was proud to have played a part in the decline of the press's approval ratings after he first announced he was running.
It is true that confidence in traditional media fell during Trump's presidency, but it is not true that 95 percent of the public had confidence in the press in 2015.
According to a 2015 Gallup poll of 1,025 adults living in all 50 US states and DC, only four in 10 Americans trust the mass media to report the news accurately and fairly.
Sebastian Gorka DrG is on December 5, 2021.
The press has a lower approval rating than Congress. I'm very happy.
This appears to be incorrect. According to a 2021, Gallup poll of 1,381 adults living in all 50 US states and DC, 12% of Americans have a lot of confidence in Congress. More people trust the media, with 21% of those surveyed expressing confidence in newspapers and 16% in television news.
The former president told the crowd that he considered it to be a great honor because of the journalists. It was laughed at.
If we don't get the press back in this country, America will march towards communism, warned Trump.
Trump distrusts the media and berated journalists during his presidency. He used social media to attack the press as an enemy of the people.
The press was called out by Trump in his speech. The former president called Gen. Mark Milley a "fuck" and the crowd cheered.
