"Press is the enemy" translation: Dear base, you are about to hear some really bad news about me.

[mahina]

He is innoculating his true believers with an antibody to the assault on their trust in him that he knows they are going to receive.

I honestly think that's about half of what comes out of the WH now- messaging for the base to refute what they see and hear, or will see and hear soon.

It's pretty effective too, when you consider the one or two syllable responses that, in the minds of his fans, completely refute any factual, nuanced, context- and history- rich alarm about that man.

[shenmue]

1. Yep

[meow2u3]

2. That was used in Soviet-era Russia by both Lenin and Stalin, to say the least

President Trump is not known for his subtlety. But even by this standard, his tweet Friday night was extreme. Trump called the news media “the enemy of the American People.”

The New York Times, which among others was called out specifically, labeled it “a striking escalation” from a leader who “routinely castigates journalists.”

Gabriel Sherman, national affairs editor at New York magazine, described it as “full-on dictator speak.”

They're not being pedantic.

Enemy of the people is a phrase “typically used by leaders to refer to hostile foreign governments or subversive organizations,” the New York Times wrote. “It also echoed the language of autocrats who seek to minimize dissent.”

Where did the expression come from? In its original incarnation, enemy of the people wasn't code for “enemy of my regime.” In one of its earliest uses, the phrase was used to describe a leader himself — Nero. The Roman ruler was a disastrous emperor, and a careless one to boot. As his country fell into ruin, strained by construction costs and a massive devaluation of the imperial currency, Nero vacationed in Greece. He enjoyed musical performances and theater. He took a chariot to some Olympic Games. He considered whether to build a canal across the Isthmus of Corinth.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/02/18/trump-called-the-news-media-an-enemy-of-the-american-people-heres-a-history-of-the-term/?utm_term=.4ede174e2346

*Nero was the Beast of Revelation spoken of in the Bible, BTW.

[Warpy]

3. Don't bet the rent

The translation is "Mommy, they're bing MEAN to me! They're saying BAD THING about me! Make 'em STOP!"

[Skittles]

4. his idiotic supporters are SO easily manipulated

the fact they cannot see through that fraud speaks VOLUMES

[Kath2]

5. Right on!

IMHO, his supporters are ignorant, ill-informed and easily conned.