Speaking with CNN’s David Axelrod, Dean Baquet — executive editor of the The New York Times — discussed his deep concern with President Donald Trump‘s frequent attacks on the press and how the president’s words harm journalists working abroad.

After a video aired of Trump calling the press the “enemy of the people,” Baquet, who works with reporters and journalists around the world, said this:

I’m deeply concerned, not only about what happens inside the United States at some of the volatile Trump rallies. I think that the President has sent a message to despots abroad that you can disrespect the press. We’ve had presidents attack the press, we’ve never had a president go on foreign soil and attack the press.

He continued on: “I can’t tell you how concerning it is that this President has essentially told those governments you can beat up the press, you can call them enemies of the people. How can my correspondent in Cairo who covers a government that’s often antagonistic to the press, how can he make the case for the First Amendment and the power of the press and for covering that government independently when we have a President of the United States who says the things he says about the press?”

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