President Trump does not understand what "Fake News" is.

Donald J. Trump, while being President, has not sufficiently displayed enough evidence via speech and direct actions to demonstrate or suggest the necessity or advisability of perceiving the intended meaning, significance, explanation, or cause of information that is published in newspapers and broadcast on radio and television about recent events in the country or world or in a particular area of activity that is intended (and succeeds in enacting its intention) to alter, manipulate, or treat the true 'news' so as to give a spuriously genuine appearance.

outwardly similar or corresponding to something without having its genuine qualities

information that is published in newspapers and broadcast on radio and television about recent events in the country or world or in a particular area of activity that is intended (and succeeds in enacting its intention) to alter, manipulate, or treat the true 'news' so as to give a spuriously genuine appearance.

President Donald Trump on Monday called the "fake news media" the "true enemy of the people." It wasn’t for the first time. And it probably won't be the last.

Funny, I don’t feel like an enemy of anything, particularly. Healthy eating, maybe. But the president keeps saying it.

Here is what Trump said in two tweets Monday morning:

"There is great anger in our Country caused in part by inaccurate, and even fraudulent, reporting of the news. The Fake News Media, the true Enemy of the People, must stop the open & obvious hostility & report the news accurately & fairly. That will do much to put out the flame of Anger and Outrage and we will then be able to bring all sides together in Peace and Harmony. Fake News Must End!"

Much has been said and written about the timing of the president's tweets, coming so soon after a suspect was arrested in a bomb plot whose targets included CNN offices and after the mass murder of Jewish people in a synagogue in Pittsburgh. Much has been said and written about the tone and tenor of Trump's rallies, in which he often verbally attacks his perceived enemies, including a nightly put-down of the press. It's a constant drum beat and beat-down.

There are plenty of false stories out there

What you don't see discussed very often is the possibility that, at least about the "fake news" part, Trump is right.

Really?

Yes. He's just wrong about what's fake.

There have been plenty of false stories about the migrant caravan making its way north to the U.S. border, for instance.

"Well maybe I'll go first because I didn't criticise the Prime Minister..."
"Unfortunately there was a story that was done which, y'know, was generally fine but it didn't put in what I said about the Prime Minister..."

"... and fortunately we tend to record stories now so we have for your enjoyment if you'd like it but we record when we deal with reporters; it's called Fake News and we solve a lot of problems with the good old recording instrument(s)."

There is great anger in our Country caused in part by inaccurate, and even fraudulent, reporting of the news. The Fake News Media, the true Enemy of the People, must stop the open & obvious hostility & report the news accurately & fairly. That will do much to put out the flame...