We are not the enemy. The claims from President Trump calling the media “fake news”, “disgusting”, and “an enemy of the public” show his ignorance towards the press whether it be tv, radio, or print. “Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost,” is a quote from the second president John Adams. The quote can be roughly translated to being: If you limit the press, you limit your freedom. The press creates a barrier between the source and the general public to properly disperse the news and to create accountability between the people in power and the public. The President’s attacks towards the press and the supporters of his attacks lead to general distrust of all media. If someone in a position like the President turns a group of people doing their jobs into enemies, you have to wonder who the real enemy is. There is always the idea of “Fake News,” or the general mainstream media that does not always agree with the President. Now, falsitised news is not just a problem on one political side. The President has famously called CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, The Washington Post and  New York Times fake news. But one thing that was lightly touched on, if touched on at all by the President, was the Sinclair Broadcast Group’s scripted newscast.  Sinclair is the biggest broadcast group in the U.S, and was caught scripting a promotional story about, ironically, the extreme spread of fake news online. Recently 350+ news sources spanning from Florida to Alaska have all been writing editorials about the need of the freedom of press and how it is necessary to a free democracy which was started by The Boston Globe. The President has responded to these “attacks by the media” by calling all who participated, “THE OPPOSITION PARTY.” Via Twitter.  Whether these News outlets were for, against, or neutral towards him, he still believed them all to be the opposition. If that is all the free press is to Trump, then he is not the righteous All-American President that many may believe he is. Without the free standing press, the country collapses into anarchy followed by a dictatorship. On the Reporters Without Borders website, which tracks different countries amount of freedom of press, North Korea is the lowest on it’s list of 180 countries, and look how it is viewed. It’s people are constantly fed lies since all forms of it’s news media are regulated by the government and every aspect of the government is manufactured to be viewed as perfect. The attacks by the President can no longer be tolerated. It does not matter which side you gravitate towards, his attacks on the media whether you believe them to be fake or not, are not only attacks on hard working people, but to the  American population as a whole. Although the hopes of these attacks to end are reasonable, they will most likely continue to happen. It does not matter if you agree with him or not, a president of any country with a free standing press calling them “the opposition party” is no longer a president, but a want-to -be dictator. It does not matter if he was your president from the beginning, or never was, him claiming that the openly anti-Trump news companies were fake news, while ignoring the events behind the pro-Trump scripted Sinclair Broadcasting scandal proves he is a truly one sided leader. If the leader of “The Greatest Nation on Earth” can’t be a great leader, can there ever truly be a “Greatest Nation”?