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kentuck

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Sun Jul 2, 2017, 06:06 AM Jul 2017

"I'm President and They're Not": Trump Attacks Media at Faith Rally [View all]

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WASHINGTON — President Trump began his holiday weekend getaway with another denunciation of the news media, using a celebration of American veterans and freedom at an evening rally to thunder that he would not allow the “fake” media to stop his agenda.

Speaking to raucous supporters at a faith rally at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, Mr. Trump brought the crowd to its feet by condemning news organizations.

“The fake media is trying to silence us,” Mr. Trump told the crowd at the concert hall, after returning to Washington briefly from his weekend getaway at his golf club in New Jersey. “But we will not let them. Because the people know the truth. The fake media tried to stop us from going to the White House. But I’m president and they’re not.”

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/01/us/politics/trump-tweets-stoke-voter-fraud-claim-and-attack-news-media.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fus&action=click&contentCollection=us®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=8&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0

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Donald Trump is an orange flesh bag filled with excrement and childhood disappointment. Gravitycollapse Jul 2017 #1
something's wrong with him for sure. mdbl Jul 2017 #15
Trump is senile. Hieronymus Jul 2017 #2
What Trump is attempting is to pre-emptively gather his troops for the civil disturbances WinkyDink Jul 2017 #3
Correct! n/t ewagner Jul 2017 #18
And November 9, 1938 and before that February 27, 1933. George II Jul 2017 #21
International disgrace Submariner Jul 2017 #4
Great "Time" cover! smirkymonkey Jul 2017 #22
What a sore winner (of the electoral college only that is). BigmanPigman Jul 2017 #5
Pure divisiveness taken straight out of The Authoritarian's Handbook. Eugene Jul 2017 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author BigmanPigman Jul 2017 #7
Pooty Poot's plan is proceding Achilleaze Jul 2017 #8
Like a child. cwydro Jul 2017 #9
FUCK YOU DON TRUMP spanone Jul 2017 #10
When you catch these events and he's obviously spewing crazy BS out of his vacant head, Vinca Jul 2017 #11
So, everything and Scarsdale Jul 2017 #12
heh heh heh.... CurtEastPoint Jul 2017 #13
"I'm Chevy Chase and you're not" JustABozoOnThisBus Jul 2017 #14
...he "brought the crowd to their feet..." ewagner Jul 2017 #16
Phalically challenged - severely RT Atlanta Jul 2017 #17
This sounds more and more like Germany in the 1930s, and to think he said that... George II Jul 2017 #19
The way he channels Mussolini, we should call him ... Martin Eden Jul 2017 #20
He has many people fooled into believing that rock Jul 2017 #23
Jeezus, what a goddamn ninny! GoCubsGo Jul 2017 #24
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