This week, President Trump released an ad that labeled the press his enemy.
He also told CNN he wasn't taking any more questions from the network because, "I like real news, not fake news. You're fake news."
CNN's @Acosta to Trump: Can we ask you more questions?
Trump: "I like real news, not fake news. You're fake news." https://t.co/m4KiTC6lrK— CNN (@CNN) August 14, 2017
Tuesday morning, the president's assault on the press continued. He used one of his favorite weapons: the tweet.
The president retweeted a meme that features a man with the CNN logo over his head being run over by a train with Trump's name plastered on the side.
Nothing can stop the #TrumpTrain‼️ pic.twitter.com/PprEMbiZQa
— SL (@SLandinSoCal) August 15, 2017
Thirty minutes later, President Trump deleted the retweet, but of course, screenshots, like diamonds, are forever.
The tweet comes after three days after a Charlottesville rally, during which alt-right supporters, neo-Nazis, Confederate sympathizers, Ku Klux Klan members and other groups stormed the city with tiki-torches and racist chants turned violent.
That rally culminated in a terrorist attack, during with lone wolf James Alex Fields, Jr. ran over those who had come out to protest the rally with a car. His attack led to protester Heather Heyer's death.
With this event on the minds of a nation, many were not in the mood for a presidential tweet condoning running someone over, be the violence cartoon or otherwise.
Twitter was quick to let its disgust be known.
Before 7am, Trump had already re-tweeted an image of a journalist being killed by a train and someone calling Trump a fascist. What's next?
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) August 15, 2017
2Words Can Stop The Trump Train
“THE TRUTH” pic.twitter.com/YyRkQseH64— Cher (@cher) August 15, 2017
It gets worse. @thinkprogress notes "Train" image Trump RT'd comes from antisemite, Pizzagate-pushing, Birther https://t.co/8vKokwa9Hk
pic.twitter.com/GmoJQzZCJF— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) August 15, 2017
This is not about politics. This is about basic human decency, which we all know the President lacks. https://t.co/Yn145RKIBr
— Jennifer Mendelsohn (@CleverTitleTK) August 15, 2017
Every Member of Congress must condemn POTUS for posting pic of a vehicle striking a reporter after terrorists used a vehicle to kill a woman pic.twitter.com/ryI1xMc4Nt
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) August 15, 2017
The president has yet to respond.