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Quotes About Media

Like Trump, I would say that fake news is distributed 24 hours a day.
~ Matteo Salvini
I think it's clear that Trump is usually in a reactive mode, reacting to what he sees and hears on Fox.
~ Brian Stelter
Donald Trump handles these nitwit reporters with a new and most disgraceful form of bribery.
~ Jimmy Breslin
As consequential and as deadly as the coronavirus pandemic has been, and will continue to be, the Trump media machine can't stop and won't stop its relentless propagandizing and historical revision. Trump is the hero.
~ Rick Wilson
Donald Trump is a little bit like I am. He says what needs to be said. Most of all, folks, he's not afraid of the United States liberal media. They dislike him nearly as much as they hate me.
~ Paul LePage
The media here is the opposition party. They don't understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.
~ Steve Bannon
For Trump, success always has a single father - himself. Failure has a hundred - everyone and anyone else. The media. The Democrats. The 'deep state.' Disloyal staffers. Prosecutors. Judges. Anyone who doesn't do his bidding or sufficiently sing his praises.
~ George T. Conway III
Trump, like Putin, has a demonstrably thin skin and short temper when it comes to being criticized by journalists.
~ Masha Gessen
It is hard to tell where Fox ends and Trump begins. But if I had to choose one side of this, I would say Fox drives Trump more than Trump drives Fox.
~ Brian Stelter
Everyone at Fox could see that the way to get attention, to get promoted, to get ahead was to hitch a ride with Trump and never look back.
~ Brian Stelter
During the Trump years, many people felt that his antics were impossible to ignore.
~ Brian Stelter
When Trump goes after the media and calls it fake news, he should be impeached - and everyone should say this. But the media lives in fear.
~ Sean Astin
Trump forces us to ask questions we didn't used to ask.
~ Brian Stelter
Glenn Beck and others were pretty outrageous and extremely conspiratorial in the pre-Trump years. I don't mean to totally gloss over some of the nuttiness that was airing on Fox pre-Trump, but I do see a distinction between those years and the Trump years.
~ Brian Stelter
Hillary Clinton was rejected soundly by America, but instead of changing course, the Democrats and their media allies are intent on telling Americans just how terrible they are for embracing Donald Trump.
~ Milo Yiannopoulos
I'm sick and tired of only being asked about everything that Donald Trump says or does.
~ John McCain
Basically, Trump's significant first moves have been twofold. To marginalize the media, and to start dismantling the federal government.
~ Masha Gessen
In a true democracy, there has to be a line between deliberative debate and mob rule. Trump has crossed the line, and much of the media has exacerbated the problem by treating his remarks as entertainment, effectively encouraging his competition to do the same.
~ Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
I think more airtime should be given to Donald Trump and Orly Taitz. They should run for office together. They should open for Charlie Sheen.
~ Henry Rollins
It's not as if Trump is addicted to the best-researched, most in-depth, meticulously sourced material in the world. If he were, we'd all be better off, right?
~ Brian Stelter
If Trump, for whatever reason, continues to coddle Russia, then Congress, the media, foundations, and academics should publicly detail the corruption that characterizes Putin's rule.
~ Richard N. Haass
Donald Trump ran for autocrat, he didn't run for president. The first thing in autocrat does is take over the media, or alienate the media, which is what Trump is doing, he is doing it actively.
~ Masha Gessen
I've always been interested in the news, but I've always been interested in what's popular. I've always had a little bit of a populist take on things. Which I know is interesting when you talk about Donald Trump.
~ Jeff Zucker
Trump granted pardons because of Fox... He raged against migrant 'caravans' because of Fox. He accused public servants of treason because of Fox. And he got the facts wrong again and again because of mistakes and misreporting by the network.
~ Brian Stelter