Thanks Dmcg for your thoughtful and reasoned response. I do have some questions though to clarify. Does this move by trump mean that the press outlets in question will not know what happened and was said . That they will not be allowed to write editorials expressing their opinions and political bias . Or that the secret police will be on their doorstep ?    The foregoing has , and still is the norm in many states that don't get to vote a new head of state or president in every few years .   Is this , perhaps less than best directive , really worthy of hitler and totalitarian states comparison ?