President Trump hits the media in speech to troops

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President Donald Trump criticized the news media during a speech to members of the military.  The president, speaking at upstate New York's Fort Drum, claimed 4 million new jobs have been created since his election in November 2016, a number he said, "the media in the back never said would be possible." After President Trump's comment was met with cheers and applause from soldiers in the room, he launched into an aside about the media.  "I'm so proud of myself. I didn't call them the 'fake news media,' " President Trump continued. "I said to myself, 'I will not today, in front of our great armed forces, call them 'fake news.' We know the real truth but we won't say it today." 


President Trump hits the media in speech to troops