Donald Trump upped the ante in his attacks on the media early Sunday, with a furious tweet attacking the “fake news” as “dangerous and sick.”
The president again described the press as the “enemy of the people” and said it “can also cause war.”
The tweet is the latest chapter in his ongoing feud with the news media.
A week ago, Trump revealed that he had met secretly with A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times.
Trump called the interaction “very good and interesting,” but that description was disputed by Sulzberger. While the president did not state when he met with Sulzberger, he tweeted that the two parties discussed “the vast amounts of fake news, and how that fake news has morphed into phrase, ‘enemy of the people.'”
Sulzberger said he expressed concern about Trump’s “deeply troubling anti-press rhetoric,” and that it was “eroding” the U.S. commitment to free speech and an unrestrained press.
–Javier David contributed to this article.
