he has a right to respond to. and that he he does that regularly. and you don t think that s a threat to anyone? you don t think that s sending a message, do that to the media, do that to cnn? no. i don t. i don t think so. i think that importantly here he s a genuine president, expressing himself genuinely. to be honest, i think that s why he was elected. here we are. this is where we are, kyle. i mean, there is the g-20 starts on friday. the president spoke with the presidents of china and japan last night about the north korean nuclear threat. here we are talking about titterment tom bossert twitter. tom bossert says it s not condoning violence, do you think it is? you know, it s one of those things, it s hard to read what this president means. it can be taken that way. i don t think that i think that donald trump means this as a joke and that this is all a big joke to him. i think he doesn t realize that some will not take this as a joke but will see this as a call to
said on sunday that he s been troubled by the president s recent attacks on the news media. there s an important distinction to draw between bad stories or crappy coverage and the right that citizens have to argue and complain about that, and trying to weaponize distrust. the first amendment is the beating heart of the american experiment, and you don t get to separate the freedoms that are in there. for more we re joined by kyle felcher, breaking news editor at the washington examiner. good morning to you. ben sass, a critic of the president says, we re living in an america of perpetual adolescence. however, it appears a 71-year-old man is the adolescent setting the tone. here is someone from his administration, tom bossert, homeland security adviser, talking about the president s twitter habits with abc yesterday. i think that no one would perceive that as a threat. i hope they don t. i do think that he s beaten up in a way on cable platforms that
thing, that is what a lot of his voters wanted him to do. they wanted him to take on media elites and the the coastal liberals and people who they view as enemies or as their opponents. so it really is a thing that works. and it s why he keeps doing it. he did it throughout the campaign, and it won him the white house. now he s doing it while in the white house, there s nowhere to go from here. there s nothing else that he can win aside from actually promoting policies and running the country. and whether or not he is interested is an open question. seems that he s only interested in getting these kind of public relations victories as he s been doing throughout his career in the new york tabloids. people like christiane amanpour tell us that world leaders around the globe study the president s twitter habits. it should be interesting to see what vladimir putin, what some of these world leaders are making of his tweets ahead of the g-20. kyle, thank you very much for
he was elected. reporter: the white house often says that the president is his own best messenger, and twitter is a platform where he can speak directly to his base without going through the media. instead of using that platform to tell 33 million people about the health care debate or to preview his upcoming foreign trip where he will meet with russian president vladimir putin for the first time, he s using it to attack the media. thanks. breaking news editor at the washington examiner. thanks for coming on. thank you. we have a breakdown of what the president has been tweeting about in recent times, showing his let s call them #presidentialpriorities, right. that s what they are. attacks on the media, 94 tweets, more than jobs and the military combined. kyle, what does that tell you about the president s priorities at this time? it goes to show that this is a constant campaign for the president. as much as he could be talking about policy, talking about the