Chilling Statement

Total cases	43

Trump calls “fake news” the “enemy of the people”

February 24, 2017

In a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Feb. 24, 2017, Trump referred to the media as …

Trump reportedly urges FBI director James Comey to jail journalists

February 14, 2017

During an Oval Office meeting on Feb. 14, 2017, President Trump allegedly asked James Comey, then the FBI director, to …

Omarosa Manigault (L), aide to U.S. President Donald Trump, stands beside White House spokesman Sean Spicer (R) at a press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 14, 2017.

Senior White House official mentions ‘dossier’ on reporter

February 8, 2017

April Ryan, a White house correspondent for American Urban News Networks, claims that she was “physically intimidated” by a political …

Search Results Summary

Total Results	19
Journalists affected	7
Institutions affected	9

How we track Chilling Statements

Selected public threats made to reporters and media organizations by U.S. politicians and other public figures, which can have a chilling effect on journalism.

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From ‘fake news’ to ‘enemy of the people’: An Anatomy of Trump’s tweets

From June 16, 2015, when Donald Trump declared his candidacy for president, to today, where he sits as leader of the free world, every tweet in which he mentions the media, individual journalists, news outlets, or journalistic sources in a negative tone is being tracked in a database.

Contributor Stephanie Sugars, who created that database with the Committee to Protect Journalists and manages its ongoing accounting, explored rhetoric from the first two years of Trump’s presidency in a blog post.

As the president continues to communicate through Twitter, this live database offers a continued tracking.

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