«Fake news !» In Donald Trump’s mouth, this accusation, repeatedly launched in the meeting and on social networks, has become a simple interjection. The obsession of the American president to control the speech around his person does not date from his second term. Since 2016, he has multiplied invective or even insults against all journalists who have dares to do their information work.
But since his re -election, in November 2024, Trump’s crusade has taken a disturbing turn. The president is engaged in defamation trials against several television channels. “There is a judicialization of his relationship with the media, which was not the case during his first mandate”, analysis Alexis Pichard, author of Trump and the media, the illusion of a war (VA Editions, 2020).
No one escapes this permanent war to control his own story. Not even the very Trumpian Fox News, which he accuses of having broadcast a popularity survey against him, on the occasion of the hundred days of his presidency: on his Truth Social network, on April 24, the president attacked the Rupert Murdoch magnate directly, who controls the chain. “His strategy is to overwhelm all the media coming out of his story”, Summarizes Alexis Pichard.
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