The US leader was speaking in Missouri ahead of the crunch US midterm elections taking place on Tuesday November 6, and delivered an address in support of Republic Senate candidate Josh Hawley, who is attempting to unseat Democratic incumbent Senator Claire McCaskill.
The President delivered a blistering attack on the “angry far-left media”, and accused them of leading an unrelenting assault on his leadership.
Quoting Republican campaign consultant and advisor Ed Rollins, Trump said: “Never before has a President had to withstand the level of partisan assault from the media that President Trump has had to withstand.
“There is nobody who has had to take this.”
He also accused the media of hypocrisy, claiming reporting remained negative regardless of his administration’s success on key issues including North Korea.
Trump said: “If we do great things they come out bad, no matter what we do.
“We could do the greatest thing in the world – should have gone faster.”
The US leader took direct aim at President Obama’s legacy, and suggested that he had managed to achieve more progress with North Korea than the former President had done during his entire administration.
He said: “I took over North Korea, President Obama knows it, and we were ready to go to war – and now we are getting along, no rockets, no nothing – and the media are saying, ‘why can’t he go faster’.”
He branded his relationship with Kim Jong-un as “very good”, and noted that the US will no longer have to worry about “millions of lives being lost”, or nuclear weapons “flying over Japan”.
Trump then pointed at the media and said: “No matter what you do.”
Trump later mocked the media, and stated they would have never guessed he would have created around 4.2million new jobs since the 2016 presidential election.
The US leader quipped: “The wonderful media back there, I’m trying to be nice, the wonderful media – if I had said during the campaign that we were going to create 4.2million new jobs since the election, and lift four million Americans off of food stamps – they would have said, ‘how dare he say a thing like that’.
“Well, that is what we did. Far far far greater than anybody else.”
He also noted that around 600,000 new manufacturing jobs had been created since the election, and mocked the previous administration for claiming the US “can’t create manufacturing jobs anymore”.
Lauding his administration’s economic achievements in the manufacturing sector, he said: “600,000 new jobs and it is going up rapidly as these companies come back to the US.
“They are the best jobs, the most important jobs, they are great jobs, and they are high paying jobs, and we do it better than anybody.
“They wall want to be in the US because now for the first time in decades, we are where it’s at, we’re the hot country.”