"The Press is the Enemy"
1972
1972-01-01 (context) Nixon said, “The press is the enemy…the establishment is the enemy…the professors are the enemy…write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it”.
2018
2018-01-30 Steve Bannon said to Michael Lewis “The Democrats don’t matter. The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit”.
https://kikiskyeai.substack.com/p/finding-your-footing-in-the-flood
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_the_zone
2021
2021-09 During an event at Teneo Retreat (presented by the Venverloh Family Foundation) JD Vance stated, “I got myself into a little hot water last week, uh, because I made what – what seemed to me a plainly obvious observation that Alex Jones, the InfoWars guy, is a better source of information than Rachel Maddow, the MSNBC gal. Now, some people said ‘Well, JD, you’re just trolling’. Well, yeah, of course I was just trolling. But that doesn’t mean what I said is in any way untrue…the most important truths often come from people who are crazy 60% of the time, but they’re right 40% of the time…I’m very close friends with Peter Thiel. I think Peter Thiel is one of the most important sources of nonconventional truth in our society. Peter Thiel believes some things that are considered crazy by opinion makers. We have to get away from this weird tension we feel in our chest when somebody says this person believes something crazy therefore you must denounce them”.
https://www.propublica.org/article/jd-vance-alex-jones-leonard-leo-teneo-maddow-video
https://www.propublica.org/article/leonard-leo-teneo-videos-documents
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24815790-jd-vance-teneo-network-2021-speech/
https://www.propublica.org/article/we-dont-talk-about-leonard-leo-supreme-court-supermajority
https://www.propublica.org/article/leonard-leo-teneo-videos-documents
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtRPLCso0Sw
2024
2024-11-03 During a rally, Trump encouraged the idea of firing at the media by saying, “to get me someone would have to shoot through the fake news, and I don’t mind that so much”.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/03/donald-trump-rally-fake-news-00186979
2025
2025-06-25 Trump posted, “FAKE NEWS CNN IS SO DISGUSTING AND INCOMPETENT. SOME OF THE DUMBEST ANCHORS IN THE BUSINESS!”.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/114744200351138112
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114747234182168375