With Trump I think most people conflated his words (“fake news”, and a obvious disrespect for certain news orgs) as action. When in reality it was just rhetoric

With Trump I think most people conflated his words (“fake news”, and a obvious disrespect for certain news orgs) as action. When in reality it was just rhetoric. There was no doubt that it had some influence on the population but I agree that it doesn’t rise to the action of shutting down all press but for one official news source. I’d even go as far to say that most of the other things that cause people to consider Trump as a fascist, were mostly based on that rhetoric as opposed to direct actions.