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WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump challenged skeptical media coverage of his historic summit with North Korea\u2019s Kim Jong Un on Wednesday, declaring that \u201cFake News\u201d is the nation\u2019s \u201cbiggest enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n
The president\u2019s tweet, delivered a few hours after Air Force One touched down outside Washington, was reminiscent of his February 2017 Twitter rebuke in which he called several leading news outlets \u201cthe enemy of the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump has sought to portray his unprecedented meeting with Kim as a significant accomplishment that has made the world less vulnerable to the North\u2019s nuclear arsenal. Critics say that his agreement with the North lacks specific restraints on Kim\u2019s government and that he offered to end joint military exercises with South Korea with little in return.<\/p>\n
The president tweeted after returning from his Singapore summit that \u201cthe Fake News, especially NBC and CNN,\u201d are \u201cfighting hard to downplay the deal with North Korea.\u201d He added: \u201c500 days ago they would have \u2018begged\u2019 for this deal-looked like war would break out.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOur Country\u2019s biggest enemy is the Fake News so easily promulgated by fools!\u201d Trump tweeted.<\/p>\n
The president also asserted that after his initial round of talks with Kim, there is \u201cno longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea.\u201d Trump\u2019s claim is dubious given that independent experts estimate Pyongyang has enough fissile material for 20 to 60 bombs.<\/p>\n
The tweet followed a New York Times story on the Trump administration\u2019s lack of scientific expertise, the president\u2019s questioning of the honesty of the American media at an international summit in Canada and his dismissal of diplomatic expertise in favor of using a \u201ctouch\u201d and \u201cfeel\u201d approach in his talks with Kim.<\/p>\n
Trump has bristled against questions over his decision to meet with Kim, whose country is estimated to have 80,000 to 120,000 political prisoners. The president has dubbed his detractors \u201chaters & losers.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a mistake to see attacks on the media as separate from those things,\u201d said Jay Rosen, a New York University journalism professor. \u201cIt\u2019s the erosion of the common world of fact. If we can\u2019t agree on what the facts are, if there are no facts because they are in endless dispute, there is no accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rosen noted that international summits were often venues for the U.S. president and American journalists to insist on joint news conferences with autocratic leaders or strongmen and their accompanying press corps, a form of soft diplomacy that demonstrated America\u2019s commitment to democratic institutions such as freedom of the press.<\/p>\n
While Trump held a news conference at the G-7 summit in Quebec last week, he told reporters during one exchange that he \u201ccame up with the term fake news\u201d because many journalists who cover him are \u201cvery dishonest.\u201d In response to a journalist representing CNN, Trump criticized the premise of the reporter\u2019s question and then criticized \u201cfake news CNN\u201d as \u201cthe worst.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnybody who can exert a factual check on the president, saying \u2018Wait a minute, that\u2019s not what happened,\u2019 is to be dismissed, attacked, delegitimized, pushed aside and turned into a hate object,\u201d Rosen said.<\/p>\n
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On Twitter, follow Ken Thomas at https:\/\/twitter.com\/KThomasDC<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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