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"They are evil people, the press, the media, they are bad people, and nobody, nobody lies like they do"

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It’s a blunt instrument disguised as a diagnosis: call the press “evil,” repeat it until it sounds like common sense, then treat disagreement as proof of guilt. Trump isn’t critiquing coverage; he’s rewriting the rules of credibility. The line works because it collapses a sprawling ecosystem of outlets, incentives, and mistakes into a single villain with a single motive. “They” becomes a faceless enemy you don’t have to fact-check.

The phrasing is pure rally rhetoric. The staccato piling-on (“evil... bad... nobody, nobody”) is less argument than drumbeat, engineered for a crowd’s call-and-response energy. The superlative charge - “nobody lies like they do” - is intentionally unverifiable. It dares listeners to choose loyalty over measurement: you’re either with him or you’re naive.

Subtextually, it’s a preemptive strike. By framing the media as uniquely dishonest, Trump inoculates himself against future reporting - on scandals, policy failures, misstatements - before it lands. If a story hurts him, the takeaway has already been planted: it’s not accountability, it’s malice. That inversion is the point. The press becomes the problem, not the conduct being reported.

The context is a modern attention economy where distrust is a renewable resource. Trump, the businessman-turned-performer, understands that conflict is content. Attacking the media isn’t collateral damage; it’s a strategy that rallies supporters, pressures institutions, and turns every critical headline into evidence of persecution. The real target isn’t journalists. It’s the shared reality they help referee.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Trump, Donald. (2026, January 15). They are evil people, the press, the media, they are bad people, and nobody, nobody lies like they do. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/they-are-evil-people-the-press-the-media-they-are-173336/

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Trump, Donald. "They are evil people, the press, the media, they are bad people, and nobody, nobody lies like they do." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/they-are-evil-people-the-press-the-media-they-are-173336/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"They are evil people, the press, the media, they are bad people, and nobody, nobody lies like they do." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/they-are-evil-people-the-press-the-media-they-are-173336/. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.

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Donald Trump (born June 14, 1946) is a Businessman from USA.

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