It's not playing the victim; it's a statement of fact. The POTUS is encouraging violence against reporters (remember when he was on the campaign trail and literally put reporters in a pen, then pointed them out to the audience and mocked them to their faces?).

The three reporters who were behind the discredited CNN story are no longer employed. They faced consequences for their actions. Trump lies constantly, on many, many subjects. Where are the consequences for that?

There's a New York Times piece ('Trump's Lies', June 23) documenting all the president's lies up to the end of June. And before dismissing this as 'fake news' from the MSM, look some of them up (and not on Breitbart or Fox).

I liked this one: Trump said “A reporter for Time magazine — and I have been on their cover 14 or 15 times. I think we have the all-time record in the history of Time magazine.” (Trump was on the cover 11 times and Nixon appeared 55 times. As of Oct. 2013, Hillary Clinton was on 19 covers.)