Chris Wallace, an anchor for Fox News, has joined the chorus of media professionals speaking out against President Trump’s assertion that the media is an ‘enemy.’
Chris Wallace, an anchor for Fox News, has joined the chorus of media professionals speaking out against President Trump’s assertion that the media is an ‘enemy.’
In a Sunday interview on ‘Fox & Friends,’ Wallace said, “Look, we're big boys. We criticize presidents. They want to criticize us back, that's fine…But when he said that the fake news media is not my enemy, it's the enemy of the American people, I believe that crosses an important line.”
When asked by host Pete Hegseth if the comment was about media bias, Wallace said, “I think there's absolutely something there, and if he had said that, you wouldn’t have heard a peep out of me. Lord knows, Barack Obama criticized Fox News. If Donald Trump wants to criticize the New York Times, that’s fine. But it’s different from saying that we are an enemy of the American people. That’s a different thing.”
The Trump tweet behind Wallace’s comments was posted on Friday and read, “The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!”
On Saturday, Trump continued to voice his opposition to the press, tweeting, “Don't believe the main stream (fake news) media. The White House is running VERY WELL. I inherited a MESS and am in the process of fixing it.”