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The hosts deconstruct an introduction by Marvin Kalb at the National Press Club where he compared Donald Trump to Hitler and Stalin for calling the press the "enemy of the people." They play a clip of Trump clarifying that he specifically referred to "fake news" as the enemy, arguing that the media intentionally dropped the word "fake" to create a more inflammatory narrative.
Ronald Reagan 1984 Bombing Joke, Historical Media Context
In 1984, President Ronald Reagan made a famous joke during a microphone check about outlawing Russia and beginning bombing in five minutes. Historical news reports from Marvin Kalb show that while the Soviet Union went on a brief military alert, the U.S. media at the time was less hostile toward the President's rhetoric than modern media is toward Donald Trump.
