Trump trolls media

IN Media Watch Briefs | 07/07/2016

US presidential candidate Donald Trump’s hate-hate relationship with the media was taken a notch higher on Wednesday when he called them “dishonest” and lambasted them for giving him bad press for tweeting an image that was widely perceived to be anti-Semitic. The image, which featured Clinton and a six-pointed star on a bed of money, was taken to be a reference to the Star of David and an evocation of a common anti-Semitic imagery. But Trump, who has now taken to praising Saddam Husain, hit back, accusing the media not just of dishonesty, but even of having racist tendencies. “Actually they’re racially profiling…These people are sick,” he said at a rally in Ohio yesterday. As usual, most of his ire was directed at CNN, which he calls “Clinton News Network”. If Trump does become US President, wonder how the media will learn to live with him.

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