President Donald Trump, in an Axios interview that will air on Sunday, defended his attacks on the press, saying that his supporters like it when he calls the press the “enemy of the people.”
"I think I'm doing a service [by attacking the press] when people write stories about me that are so wrong,” Trump told Axios.
He added, "I know what I do good and what I do bad. I really get it, OK? I really get it better than anybody in the whole world."
Trump said that attacking the press during rallies and on social media is “my only form of fighting back. I wouldn’t be here if I didn't do that.”
The president said that his advisers, including his children, don’t tell him to tone down his rhetoric “too much.”
“It got me here,” he added. "If they would write accurately about me, I would be the nicest president you've ever seen. It would be much easier. It's much easier ... for me to be nice than it is for me to be the way I have to be."
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