Bill O’Reilly says the increasing toxicity between Trump and the media is “destructive for America”

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Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly decided it was time to start sounding alarm bells Wednesday night during his “Talking Points” commentary. The issue? Too much hatred toward an unpopular president.

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O’Reilly unveiled a new CBS News poll that revealed an approval rating for President Donald Trump of 40 percent and a disapproval rating of 52 percent. O’Reilly immediately suggested those poor numbers aren’t surprising “for a president with no prior political experience who’s vowing to drain the swamp in Washington” and that at this time next year “President Trump’s job approval ratings will be much more meaningful.”

O’Reilly then ran through other poll numbers, such as the failure of the health care bill. It showed that 49 percent thought it just wasn’t popular. Then came the question of whether it’s necessary for the FBI to look into a link between the Trump campaign and Russia, and 63 percent responded that it is “necessary.” Lastly came a question about Trump’s wiretapping claims that still have no evidence, and 30 percent said it’s “not at all likely” his wires were tapped, while another 20 percent said “not very likely.”

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At that point, O’Reilly said he’d like to ask his own question: “Do you believe that the hatred toward President Trump has reached a dangerous level?”

This poll had a participation level of just one.

“The answer is yes,” the host said. “Whether you like the president or not, it’s unfair to undermine his administration as some of his opponents are trying to do. We have the Democratic party refusing to cooperate on anything and now it looks like Senate rules will have to be changed to appoint Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court because not enough Democrats will support him.”

O’Reilly brought up that there was hatred toward Barack Obama, but noted that “in the first months of his tenure, there was no apparent undermining of his administration.”

Critics of President Trump will note that President Obama didn’t come out of the gates signing multiple unpopular executive orders such as the Muslim Ban, he didn’t try to debunk science or make unsubstantiated claims about voter fraud or accuse his predecessor of a high crime with no evidence to back it up. Above all that, there was no investigation into possible ties to a foreign adversary that interfered in the U.S. elections process.

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“But now,” O’Reilly continued, “we have a climate of hatred where there are no rules. And the media feeds the beast every single day. As a historian, I can tell you, I have never seen a national press despise a president more than they do Donald Trump.”

Critics would quickly respond that the Trump administration, unlike any administration in American history, has made it a point to use alternative facts, bash the mainstream American press as fake news, act hostile toward it and publicly brand one of the pillars of democracy as “the enemy of the people.”

O’Reilly compared the situation to the end of Richard Nixon’s term and said, “What we have now is unfair and destructive for America.”

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