‘Crazed lunatics’: President Trump again attacks the news media as ‘the enemy of the people’

President Donald Trump launched a fresh attack on the news media, writing in tweets that it consists of many “crazed lunatics,” and he again invoked the derogatory term “enemy of the people.” “With all of the success that our Country is having, including the just released jobs numbers which are off the charts, the Fake News & totally dishonest Media concerning me and my presidency has never been worse,” President Trump said in the first of the tweets. “Many have become crazed lunatics who have given up on the TRUTH!” President Trump asserted, without citing any specifics, that the “Fake News” knowingly lies and makes up sources to make him look bad. “The Fake News Media in our Country is the real Opposition Party,” he said. “It is truly the Enemy of the People! We must bring honesty back to journalism and reporting!” President Trump has described the news media as the “enemy of the people” in 18 tweets since June. He has said about 80 percent of the media falls into that category. A couple of hours later, President Trump was back on Twitter, taking issue with a New York Times story that reported that his national security adviser, John Bolton, had rolled back President Trump’s decision to rapidly withdraw US troops from Syria.