President TrumpDonald John TrumpMidterms: The winners and losers GOP Rep. Mike Bost wins reelection in Illinois Sisolak becomes first Dem to win Nevada governor race since 1994 MORE held a lengthy and frequently hostile press conference Wednesday at the White House, where he repeatedly belittled individual reporters and cast blame on the media for causing division in the country. In a roughly 90 minute press conference in the East Room, Trump regularly talked over reporters and cut them off as they sought follow-up questions. He simultaneously voiced a desire for the country to unify following the midterms and blamed the media for existing hostilities. Here are seven instances where Trump clashed with reporters on Wednesday: Trump goes after CNN’s Acosta The president renewed hostilities with CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta after the reporter attempted to follow up a question about Central American migrants with a question about the Russia investigation. “That’s enough. Put down the mic,” Trump told Acosta. “I’ll tell you what, CNN should be ashamed of itself having you working for them,” he said. “You are a rude, terrible person. You shouldn’t be working for CNN.” Acosta has been at the center of a number of heated exchanges with Trump and White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and is often heckled by the president’s supporters at campaign rallies. He later vowed to continue doing his job in the face of criticism. Trump labels CNN “enemy of the people” After the press secretary late last month refused to name which outlets the president considers the “enemy of the people,” Trump applied the label to CNN during his back-and-forth with Acosta. “When you report fake news, which CNN does a lot, you are the enemy of the people,” Trump sa
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