The President of our United States has an obligation to uphold an independent Press. It is the ONLY thing keeping us from being completely in the dark as far as government goes and it is as important to democracy as voting. The President does not have to like everything printed or said about him--the press has been hard on every President since George Washington, I imagine, and maybe have even reported stuff that's bullcrap. But playing dictator about what press is allowed to operate ? No. No. No. No. That's how the Russians do it. Do you think they get the facts, TN? Or Putin's spin? Trump can't take that first step down that road.
The market will kill BuzzFeed. I wasn't watching the evening CNN broke the news about Golden Showers, so don't know what they said or didn't. Either way, Trump did what IS within his perfect rights by not answering their reporter's question, but he cannot "shut them down" or "ban" them without stepping on our freedom and democracy.