Speaking to the U.S. Central Command on Monday, President Trump went off his prepared remarks to make a truly stunning claim: The media was intentionally covering up reports of terrorist attacks. Trump is positing that the media actively suppresses news of terrorist attacks to fulfill a political agenda. It’s certainly true that not every terrorist attack receives broad coverage in the national media. People cannot believe that President Obama is acting the way he acts and can’t even mention the words radical Islamic terrorism. Trump didn’t quite say that the media was siding with the terrorists, just that the media would happily ignore terrorism if it made Trump look bad.

Source: Washington Post February 06, 2017 20:00 UTC