The more he defends the odd duck Michael Flynn, saying he fired him only<br />because Flynn misled Mike Pence about talking sanctions with the Russian ambassador before Pence went on “Face the Nation,” the more it raises the question: Why didn’t Trump himself tell Pence when the White House counsel told him?<br />Beschloss riposted with this tweet: “On December 1972 tape, Nixon told Kissinger, ‘The<br />press is the enemy, the establishment is the enemy, the professors are the enemy.’”<br />By suddenly calling his own scream-of-consciousness press conference, Trump was out to prove<br />that he — not Sean Spicer, Kellyanne Conway or Stephen Miller — is the top salesman in the office.<br />You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.”<br />Trump got into another megalomaniacal “Me the People” swivet Friday, tweeting the “FAKE NEWS<br />media” was “the enemy of the American people!” So Trump is even using the rhetoric of Lenin?<br />“He lives inside his head, where he runs the same continuous loop of conflict with people he turns<br />into enemies for the purposes of his psychodrama,” says Trump biographer Michael D’Antonio.<br />Of course, this is merely the observation of someone who is “the enemy of the American people,” according to our president.<br />The whole idea was to psych out his opponents.”<br />As presidential historian Michael Beschloss reminded me, the previous gold standard for a president showing contempt for reporters at a news conference<br />was Nixon during Watergate in 1973, when he said just after the Saturday Night Massacre: “Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger.
