America's top censor—so far
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.During his time in the White House, no ta...
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.During his time in the White House, no target provoked as much anger from Donald Trump as the American press. In 2017, he declared, 'The press, honestly, is out of control.' In 2019, he called it 'truly the enemy of the people.' His reelection campaign sued the Washington Post and the New York Times. Some 500 of Trump's tweets attacked individual journalists by name, and at one point he accused the Times of 'treason.