Mr Trump’s presidency has lurched from crisis to crisis but he says it’s “not easy when we’re fighting the press and the media”
Donald Trump has continued his attacks on the media during a rally in Florida days after branding top US press the enemy of the people.
After an introduction from wife and First Lady Melania, who said he was “creating a country of great safety and prosperity”, Mr Trump walked onto the stage of an airport hangar in the city of Melbourne.
“I’m here because I want to be among my friends and among the people.
“This was a great movement – a movement that has never been seen before in our country or probably anywhere else.”
Mr Trump told his audience that they were part of a movement “sweeping the world”, adding: “Look at Brexit”.
He said: “I also want to speak to you without the filter of the fake news”, adding that the “dishonest media” had become “a big part of the problem – they are part of the corrupt system”.
“They have their own agenda and their agenda is not your agenda,” he told the cheering crowd.
But Mr Trump told his audience that “making America great again” is a campaign and “it’s not easy, especially when we’re also fighting the press and the media”. He then moved onto trade, saying again that “every country over a long period of time has been taking advantage of the stupidity of our politicians and it is not going to happen any longer”.
He also threatened companies moving jobs overseas, saying they would “pay a very, very big price”.
Mr Trump promised the audience that “jobs are starting to pour back in…like you’ve never seen” and said he had saved the day for American business in a fighter jet deal and a deal to build the pipes in the Dakota Access Pipeline project.
For most of Mr Trump’s 45-minute speech there was little that was new: there were the familiar phrases such as “we don’t win anymore”, “drain the swamp” and his catchcry “make America great again”.
Mr Trump hit out at the judges who had put on hold his travel ban,which halted travel to the US for citizens of Iran, Somalia, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
The order was blocked by a US federal court but Mr Trump has said he will order a new ban to be put in place.
He told the crowd: “We will be doing something over the next couple of days…we won’t give up, we never give up
