Trump stuck on the campaign stump

By The Canberra Times
Updated April 24 2018 - 11:00pm, first published January 23 2017 - 11:41pm

Donald Trump is loathed and derided in elite liberal circles in the United States (and elsewhere in the world) as a crude populist with an overblown sense of his intelligence. It's a simplistic assessment, but one which may have acquired additional currency after Mr Trump's intemperate outburst against the US media on Saturday. In a speech at CIA headquarters a day after his inauguration, Mr Trump accused the press of "lying" and called them "among the most dishonest human beings on earth".

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