Trump aide: media is 'opposition,' should shut up

A top aide to President Donald Trump is blasting the news media as the "opposition," saying it should "keep its mouth shut" after being humiliated by failing to foresee his election win, according to an interview published Thursday.


The brazen rebuke to the mainstream media came from Stephen Bannon, Trump's chief White House strategist who before the election had headed the far-fight, pro-Trump Breitbart News.

The comments suggest no respite in the war against the mainstream media, which has been calling out the new president over false statements even as he accuses the press of being dishonest and biased.

"The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while," Bannon told the New York Times in a telephone interview.

"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."
 [i24news.tv/AFP]
27/1/17
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