The liberal media in America -- CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, New
York Times, most newspapers -- complain because President Donald
Trump often calls them "fake news" and "the enemy of the people."
They also charge that Trump's criticism fuels an uncivil atmosphere
that sparks violence, e.g., they are now blaming Trump's rhetoric
for the mail bomber and the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting.
But the liberal media do not view their own extremist, hyperbolic
"news reporting" and commentary as contributing to America's
political incivility, even though their diction is far more
militant, repulsive, and noxious than anything Trump has said about
the press.
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For instance, these liberal media prima donnas are comfortable in
describing the president of the United States as a sociopath, a
disturbed person, a traitor, white nationalist, white supremacist,
white bigot, racist, sinister, destructive virus, treasonous,
straight out of Munich 1928, Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Nazi, evil,
mentally unfit, dictatorship, Hitler, unfit to be human, domestic
terrorist, psychologically troubled, hate monger, imperial wizard,
neo-Nazi, Axis Power, unfit, a national security threat, piece of
sh*t, killer, out of control, domestic terror group, a menace, nuts,
dictator, mentally unstable, Putin's c**k holster, madman, giant
a**hole, bigot-in-chief, and racist-in-residence.
Below are a few quotes by the liberal media, commentators, and
Hollywood figures about Trump, along with a few related quotes about
the Republican Party, which illustrate their contempt for the
commander in chief.
When Trump "goes out there and whips people up, it's like a
Mussolini rally. And yes, that's what I said." - MSNBC's Joe
Scarborough, 3/12/18 (Emphasis added.)
"[I]t's our responsibility to call out those times when
constitutional norms are being challenged, those times when the
President of the United States actually channels Joseph Stalin and
calls the media `the enemy of the people.'" - MSNBC's Joe
Scarborough, 3/8/18
"Donald Trump talks like a racist, thinks like a racist, makes
statements like a racist. Conjures emotions that give succor and
support to white supremacists and white nationalists.... He has
emboldened white supremacists to come forward." - NYT's Contributing
Editor Michael Eric Dyson, 7/5/2018
"Our President is a disturbed person, and he's behaving in ways that
are simply inexplicable.." -- NYT's Thomas Friedman, 2/21/18
"The world witnessed a betrayal the likes of which we've never seen.
America's President sided with its enemy today." -- CNN's Chris
Cuomo, 7/16/18
"[T]he spirit of what Trump did is clearly treasonous. It's a
betrayal of the United States. He threw our U.S. intelligence
services, flushed them away and it came off as being a puppet of
Putin.. [P]eople are going to say there's the taint of treason
around this White House." - CNN contributor Douglas Brinkley,
7/17/18
"Well if anybody is issuing demented words of violence and death, I
would say it's the President of the United States. I mean it's quite
a pass we've come to when the leadership of a country like Iran
seems more stable and rational than the President of the United
States." - CNN analyst Max Boot, 7/23/18
"We got a guy [Trump] who gets up every morning and excretes the
feces of his moral depravity into a nation he has turned into a
psychic commode. That's what he's done. And he's a bigot-in-chief
and a racist in residence.... Look at this mendacious, relentlessly
lying, bigoted, ill-informed person that we have." - NYT
Contributing Editor Michael Eric Dyson, 6/4/18
"I don't think he's [Trump] capable of the basic empathies that we
feel as human beings, and that's what a sociopath is." -- MSNBC's
Donny Deutsch, 3/12/18
"This is not the party of Lincoln, the party of Nixon, or even the
party of Reagan. This is the party of [Birth of a Nation film
director] DW Griffith, this is the party of the KKK, and the party
of Trump." - SiriusXM host Karen Hunter on MSNBC's Deadline, 2/26/18
"Article III in Section Three of the Constitution says this,
`treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war
against them or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and
comfort.' So, no president has ever been charged with treason.
Douglas, do you believe the President's actions fall anywhere within
that definition?" - CNN's Don Lemon, 7/17/18
"That is just the emboldening of white bigotry by a white
nationalist, white supremacist presidency, and his cronies . and all
the other white nationalists that he has empowered....The
emboldening of sort of your random white bigots and then the
loosening of the grips on white terrorism in this country has raised
the stakes for all of us." - MSNBC's Jason Johnson, 7/29/18
"`What does Putin have on Trump? Has Trump been compromised?' All of
those people, those experts, those reporters, they are looking at
the fact pattern and seeing something strange, even sinister." -
CNN's Brian Stelter, 7/22/18
"[I]t is astonishing how he [Trump] has become such an effective and
destructive virus created by Vladimir Putin." - Former Time Editor
Walter Isaacson, 7/23/18
"He's inciting, through mass rallies and constantly lying, fervor in
a political base. He scapegoats minority populations and affixes
blame to them for every problem the country faces. He alleges
conspiracies of nefarious forces.. [This] could be straight out of
Munich circa 1928." - MSNBC's Steve Schmidt, 6/26/18
"I'm gonna say one thing, `F- Trump!' It's no longer `Down With
Trump,' it's `F- Trump!'" - Robert DeNiro, 6/10/18
"We're not going to let these people go through life unscathed.
Sarah Huckabee has no right to live a life of no fuss, no muss,
after lying to the press - after inciting against the press. These
people should be made uncomfortable, and I think that's a life
sentence frankly." - The Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin, 7/1/18
Under Trump, "[c]hildren are being marched away to showers, just
like the Nazis said they were taking people to the showers, and then
they never came back." - MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, 6/15/18
Trump's detention centers at the border, "I call this a
concentration camp for kids because that's exactly what it's turning
out to [be]." - MSNBC analyst Michael Steele, 6/15/18
Trump "has very deliberately set up the press as the enemy of the
people.. You know, this is something that we first heard from Joseph
Stalin. This is very dangerous. It undercuts democracy." - NBC's
Andrea Mitchell, 7/30/18
Trump administration follows "the exact pattern that Hitler has - I
hate to say it - with the propaganda, even down to the Red Cross
went into Auschwitz. They cleaned it up for two days - it looked
fine - they went back - they said everything seems fine there.... To
quote that new book that just came out, he is evil. He is evil." -
MSNBC producer Michele Reiner, 6/24/18
Trump "is completely detached from reality. . [P]eople close to him
say is mentally unfit, that people close to him during the campaign
told me had early stages of dementia." - MSNBC's Joe Scarborough,
11/30/17
"Donald Trump is a racist. He isn't just a white supremacist - he's
a flat-out, full racist.." - Former NYT reporter David Cay Johnston,
9/16/17
"If you vote for Trump, then you, the voter, you, not Donald Trump,
are standing at the border like Nazis going `you here, you
here.'....It's a given, the evilness of Donald Trump." - MSNBC's
Donny Deutsch, 6/18/18
"This whole administration.... These guys are terrorists, right?...
[A] white nationalist government that will take children hostage to
get what they want." - MSNBC's Jason Johnson, 6/17/18
"This is the time for the Democratic base to roar up and say no more
of this crap! ... This is time for vengeance for what happened two
years ago." - MSNBC's Chris Matthews, 6/27/18
"He will be forever remembered as the president who traumatized
little children. That's his brand now. He's the president, who
purposefully traumatized babies and children and he traumatized them
for his political gain or to look like Kim Jong-un." -- MSNBC's
Mika Brzezinski, 6/18/18
Under Trump, "[w]e can imagine a future of jackboots crashing
through our doors at 2 a.m., trucks in the streets to take people to
the internment camps, bright lights and barking dogs - and worse." -
Former U.S. News & World Report's Roger Simon, 2/1/17
"Do citizens in dictatorships recognize what's happening right here
right now? Are they looking at the first two days of the Trump
administration and saying, `Oh, that's what my leader does?'" -
CNN's Brian Stelter, 1/22/17
"Is it time for newsrooms to think of new ways to convey Trump's
lack of credibility?....Because he says so many things that are
bogus....He tells us all these lies, he spreads all these
falsehoods." - CNN's Brian Stelter, 8/26/18
"Trump's attacks on the American press as `enemies of the American
people' are more treacherous than Richard Nixon's attacks on the
press.. There's a history of what `enemy of the people,' that phrase
means as used by dictators and authoritarians including Stalin
including Hitler." - CNN's Carl Bernstein, 2/19/17
Trump is "not only not fit to be president. In my book, his lack of
empathy, his lack of leadership, his lack of courage, he's unfit to
be human." - CNN commentator Ana Navarro, 8/14/17
"We haven't had a president this psychologically troubled in this
way since at least Richard Nixon." - former CBS anchor Dan Rather,
6/1/17
Trump is "the chief recruiter and Dear Leader of a gang of domestic
terrorists.... The president is the most powerful hate-monger in
America. He is the imperial wizard of the new white supremacy.. He
is our first neo-Nazi president." - The New Republic's Bob Moser,
8/14/17
Trump is "a sort of junior player in a block of authoritarian
countries.... He's part of the block that includes Vladimir Putin,
Duterte, he's you know, he's kind of part of kind of an Axis
Power.... He'd certainly like to" murder people without due process.
- NYT's Michelle Goldberg, 8/17/187
"We have a dangerous individual in the Oval Office who is a national
security threat, and he needs to be removed from office.... He's
unfit, and he needs to be removed." - MSNBC contributor Ron Reagan
Jr., 5/22/17
"He's unhinged, it's embarrassing.." - CNN's Don Lemon, 8/22/17
"This piece of s**t is not just an embarrassment to America and a
stain on the presidency. He's an embarrassment to humankind." -
CNN's Reza Aslan, 6/3/17
"We live in the age of the active shooter and the president is
goading them. He is inciting them.... The blood will be on his hands
the moment some whack-job thinks that he's carrying out the
instructions of a president and goes into a newsroom like the one
behind us or the one in my news organization or yours and murdered
people." - NYT's Bret Stephens, 8/6/18
"It's hard to fire your son-in-law ... but Mussolini had a great
solution to that. He had him executed. . So, if I were Jared
[Kushner], I'd be a little careful." - MSNBC's Chris Matthews,
1/20/17
"There are a variety of ways that Trump could kill us all." - MTV's
Jamil Smith
"The party of Lincoln has become the party of Charlottesville,
Arpaio, DACA repeal and the Muslim ban. Embodying the very worst
sentiments and driven by irrational anger, it deserves not defense
but extinction." - The Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin, 9/4/17
"People are saying we have to talk about his health now before it's
too late. Eugene Robinson saying: `How long are we going to pretend
that President Trump is fully rational? How long are we going to
ignore the signs he's dangerously out of control?' . That's the
question. I'm going to ask you, Jeff Greenfield. Is now the time?" -
CNN's Brian Stelter, 12/3/17
"How Murderer Charles Manson and Donald Trump Used Language to Gain
Followers" -- Newsweek headline, 11/20/17
"This is not a political party [Republicans] - this is a domestic
terror group." - Pollster Fernand Armandi on MSNBC, 11/26/17
"He needs to be taken out of office. He needs to be impeached. He is
a menace.. He is nuts and we're in the middle of it!" - ABC The
View's Joy Behar, 4/3/17
"These are the acts in my opinion, of a dictator. Dictators attack
the press routinely and we're seeing it in this country." - ABC The
View's Sunny Hostin, 8/1/18
"I am not surprised by this president sort of extolling the virtues
of a dictator .." - ABC The View's Sunny Hostin, 6/14/18
With Trump, "we lost respect, decency, civilized behavior,
integrity, class, accountability, responsibility. He's got none of
that. . Get him out of here, back the truck, throw him in the back
of the truck and take him away." - Actor Jeff Daniels on CBS Late
Show, 3/1/18
"Trump's entire appeal was racism.. Those rallies, you know, for
someone our age, what did they remind you of? George Wallace
rallies.... He allows them to express their bigotry and that's why
they're so ecstatic at those rallies." - Author Fran Lebowitz on
HBO's Real Time, 9/15/17
"I feel Hitler in these streets. A mustache traded for a toupee.
Nazis renamed as the cabinet." - Actress Ashley Judd, 1/21/17
"Yes, I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House."
- Madonna, 1/21/17
"Can we bring Trump here?... I think he needs help...When was the
last time an actor assassinated a president?" - Actor Johnny Depp,
6/22/17
"We don't want to use the word `mentally ill,' but he's mentally
unstable." - Director Rob Reiner, 3/5/17
"President Trump, "the only thing your mouth is good for is being
Vladimir Putin's c**k [bleep] holster." - CBS The Late Show's
Stephen Colbert, 5/1/17
"How is it we elected a predator-in-chief who was an open white
supremacist and bragged about grabbing women's genitals?...There's
no way that you can deny white supremacy now. . How are we going to
live with a planet that we've destroyed? What are we going to do as
we have this madman who is systematically destroying salmon and
destroying every aspect of our Earth that we live on?" - Playwright
Eve Ensler on PBS, 11/1/17
"It's a terrifying concept, on the brink of nuclear war with a
madman in charge." - Actress Rosie O'Donnell in W magazine, 10/24/17
"He's a Nazi. He wants no judicial process. He kidnapped children
and commits acts of violence for political gain and to support his
racist views. He admires violent dictators. Trump is a Nazi. The
debate is over. Soon we will have proof he is a Nazi supported by
the Russians." - Movie Director Judd Apatow, 6/25/18
"WE SHOULD RIP BARRON TRUMP FROM HIS MOTHER'S ARMS AND PUT HIM IN A
CAGE WITH PEDOPHILES AND SEE IF MOTHER WILL STAND UP AGAINST THE
GIANT ASSHOLE SHE IS MARRIED TO." - Actor Peter Fonda, 6/20/18
Trump is "a fascist, hate-filled, fear-mongering, demagogic, truth-
shattering, autocratic golf cheater...." -- Hollywood Producer Chuck
Lorre, 10/25/18
"How surprised should we be? This is at least the fourth mass
killing in America using an AR-15 since the Las Vegas massacre ....
At the center, an unapologetically incendiary President untrammeled
by traditional norms of civility." -- ABC This Week's George
Staphanopoulos, 10/28/18
"And I think what he [Trump] has done over the course of the last
few years is help foment this" violence. -- NYT's Maureen Dowd on
ABC This Week, 10/28/18
"The president is obviously a racist, he's obviously a demagogue. He
obviously condones anti-Semitism, stokes up nationalist hatred." --
MSNBC's John Heilemann, 10/29/18
"I can't even call him president, this demagogue, this nationalist."
-- MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, 10/29/18
(Note: The quotations above were originally collected and documented
by NewsBusters.org, a division of the Media Research Center, the
parent company of CNSNews.com.)