President Donald Trump’s behavior is out of the ordinary for a president, according to veteran news reporter Dan Rather Monday night on the TBS talk show "Conan."
"A lot of young people, well, people of all ages don’t know, from one day to the next, what he’s going to do, what he’s going to say," host Conan O’Brien said.
"It is important for us to remember this is not normal," Rather said.
He noted that some presidents have not liked the press, but no president has behaved as Trump has toward the press. "We’ve never had one that steadily, out of his own mouth, waged such an unrelenting campaign against the press," he said.
"There is a campaign to convince people, and I think particularly young people, that this is just the way presidencies go. That is not true," Rather said in the TBS interview.
"There are so many voices including that of the president that are trying to exploit the divisions of the country… that it’s very easy to forget what unites us," Rather said.
Rather also issued an opinion of current events in a Saturday post on Facebook.
"The lies, after lies, after lies, coming out of the White House — and normalized by Congressional allies — gives our age a feeling of being adrift from the truth," Rather wrote.
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