NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images(MELBOURNE, Fla.) — President Trump continued his attack on the news media at a campaign rally in Florida on Saturday night.
He told attendees he wanted to speak “without the filter of the fake news.”
“They have their own agenda and their agenda is not your agenda,” Trump said.
Trump called news organizations like ABC News and The New York Times “the enemy of the American people” in a Tweet on Friday morning, the day after a combative press conference with White House reporters.
The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 17, 2017
Trump also repeated popular promises from his campaign that he will “repeal and replace” Obamacare and pulling out of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), saying “jobs are starting to pour back in.”
Saturday evening’s rally is listed on Trump’s campaign website. Trump filed paperwork for his re-election in 2020 on the day he was inaugurated, though he also wrote that the filing was not an formal announcement. The filing allows Trump’s campaign to solicit donations and raise money for a possible 2020 bid for re-election.
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