WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump’s deputy spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump’s attacks on Brzezinski, Scarborough and other media were part of his natural instinct to “fight fire with fire.” On Saturday, those instincts seemed to be on display. “My use of social media is not Presidential - it’s MODERN DAY PRESIDENTIAL,” Trump posted on Twitter, before adding his classic tagline “Make America Great Again!”

Capping his day of derision, Trump lambasted the press at a Fourth of July “Freedom Rally” in Washington, stating that “the fake media tried to stop us from going to the White House, but I’m president and they’re not.”

“The dishonest media will never keep us from accomplishing our objectives on behalf of our great American people,” he added. “The fact is, the press has destroyed themselves because they went too far.”