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Trump Taunts and Mocks Journalists Who Were Laid Off This Week in Disgusting Tweet, ‘The People Want the Truth!’

Donald Trump seemed to revel in the layoffs at Huffington Post and BuzzFeed, taking to Twitter on Saturday to claim “more will come.”

Trump tweeted, “Ax falls quickly at BuzzFeed and Huffpost!” Headline, New York Post. Fake News and bad journalism have caused a big downturn. Sadly, many others will follow. The people want the Truth!”

Both BuzzFeed and the Huffington Post have announced layoffs in recent days amounting to more than 1,000 lost jobs.

HuffPo called it a “horrible month for journalism.”

More than a thousand people in the media industry have lost their jobs in January, in what has been one of the most brutal months for industry layoffs in recent memory.

Big media companies ― including HuffPost, AOL, Yahoo, BuzzFeed, a bunch of newspapers under Gannett, and other brands ― saw sweeping cuts as executives blamed Google and Facebook’s duopoly in the online advertising market for the ongoing decline of digital media.

To add insult to injury, 4chan trolls have been flooding the laid-off media workers with death threats, in what NBC News called “a coordinated campaign organized on the far-right message board.”

The 4chan trolling was launched well before Trump decided on Saturday to make Buzzfeed, HuffPo and the laid-off workers a target of one of his tweets.

Journalists were furious:

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