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In November 2019, a pair of quotes supposedly from U.S. Presidents Donald Trump and Richard Nixon about how their attacks on the press were intended in to discredit news stories was circulated on social media: These quotes are both largely accurate. The quote from Nixon appears to be a mash-up of two different statements from him. Nixon, who served as president from 1969 until his resignation in 1974, said the press is the enemy during a December 1972 phone call with his National Security Advisers Henry Kissinger and Alexander Haig. Nixon repeated this phrase three times before telling his security advisers to write it 100 times on the blackboard to commit it to memory: The remainder of this quote — You must keep up the attack on the media. You've got to keep destroying their credibility — comes from a call Nixon had with his special counsel Charles Colson: Trump, like Nixon, frequently rails against what he calls the fake news media. Readers will be able to find plenty of examples of Trump disparaging the press in interviews, during rally speeches, and on his Twitter feed. The quote included in this meme comes from 60 Minutes journalist Leslie Stahl. After Trump won the 2016 presidential election, he sat down with Stahl for an interview on 60 Minutes. Before the tapes started rolling, Stahl and Trump talked about his attacks on the media. Stahl recalled the conversation during an appearance in front of the journalist group the Deadline Club of New York in May 2018. Stahl begins talking about this quote around the 21:10 mark of the following video:
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