{"id":12460,"date":"2020-07-14T09:09:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T16:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/?p=12460"},"modified":"2020-07-14T11:39:29","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T18:39:29","slug":"the-enemy-of-the-people-is-donald-trump-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/2020\/07\/the-enemy-of-the-people-is-donald-trump-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Enemy of the People Is Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/347\/2019\/09\/DonaldTrumpCartoon1.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10365\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/347\/2019\/09\/DonaldTrumpCartoon1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"432\"><\/a>Donald Trump has been president of the United States of America for almost 3.5 years now. During this time, he has constantly and publicly berated the news media in general by saying of it or tweeting it in capitals as \u201cFAKE NEWS!\u201d Sometimes, he has done so specifically by naming <em>The New York Times<\/em> and\/or\u00a0 <em>The Washington Post<\/em>. (See my other similar posts about this, such as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/2018\/05\/trump-saying-fake-news-hacks-me-off\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Saying FAKE NEWS Hacks Me Off!<\/a>;\u201d \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/2020\/03\/fake-president\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Fake President<\/a>.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>I admit I am a news junkie. I have read much of the first section of <em>The New York Times<\/em> at least twice a week for many years now. I regard <em>The New York Times<\/em> and <em>The Washington Post<\/em> as the best in the land. During Donald Trump\u2019s presidency, he has often spoken publicly or tweeted of\u00a0 \u201cthe failing New York Times.\u201d Yet, despite the trying times that newspapers have gone through in recent years with the competition of the electronic media, <em>The New York Times<\/em> actually has been doing well financially. But truth doesn\u2019t matter to this former reality television star; all that matters to him is the reality that he creates as FAKE NEWS and attempts to foist onto the American public.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t believe a guy can get away with a lifestyle like that his whole life. That is, in time it will catch up to them. Call it karma, call it the judgment of God, call it whatever you may; such behavior will result in him being what he claims of others. Thus, to me, Donald Trump himself is FAKE NEWS, and I believe this will become more and more evident as time goes on. For it is the raging Donald Trump who is THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, not the news media, which is a precious pillar of our democracy. For\u2013<\/p>\n<p>The enemy of the people calls the news media \u201cfake news\u201d just as Adolf Hitler did.<\/p>\n<p>The enemy of the people has told them over 20,000 lies or misleading statements.<\/p>\n<p>The enemy of the people puts fear into the Republican Party so members toe his line.<\/p>\n<p>The enemy of the people sacrifices a green environment in search of greenbacks.<\/p>\n<p>The enemy of the people trashes the USA\u2019s top infectious disease expert in a pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The enemy of the people said a pandemic would soon go away, yet 135,000+ have died.<\/p>\n<p>The enemy of the people came to town to clean the swamp, yet he made it much bigger.<\/p>\n<p>The enemy of the people won\u2019t reveal his tax returns because he has something to hide.<\/p>\n<p>The enemy of the people wouldn\u2019t answer the special counsel\u2019s questions to hide stuff.<\/p>\n<p>The enemy of the people calls himself \u201ca stable genius,\u201d yet he doesn\u2019t even hardly read.<\/p>\n<p>The enemy of the people fires everyone until he has only yes people who do his bidding.<\/p>\n<p>The enemy of the people pardons crooks or his convicted cronies such as Roger Stone.<\/p>\n<p>The enemy of the people installs his attorney general to wreck the Justice Department.<\/p>\n<p>The enemy of the people won\u2019t read his PDB that says Russia likely targets our soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>The enemy of the people is in Vladimir Putin\u2019s back pocket, and we\u2019d like to know why.<\/p>\n<p>The enemy of the people berates our excellent intelligence community, and why is that?<\/p>\n<p>The enemy of the people hates our intelligence saying Russia helped him get elected.<\/p>\n<p>The enemy of the people refused to pursue the Russians for their election interference.<\/p>\n<p>The enemy of the people wants to make our nation a dictatorship, with him as dictator.<\/p>\n<p>Come November 3 this year, it\u2019ll be time for the people to THROW THE ENEMY OUT!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has been president of the United States of America for almost 3.5 years now. 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