President Trump’s Usage of the Word 'fake' is seen as an Attack on the Press – CNN Report.

According to a CNN report, the US President Donald Trump has averagely used the word "fake" more than 400 times since he was inaugurated.

More than once a day, on average, he has publicly assailed "fake news," "fake polls," "fake media," and "fake stories."

Over and over again, he has told the United States not to trust what reporters say. His allies have done the same thing. This repetition - constantly labeling real news as "fake" -is what has made the slur so powerful.

A study released on Tuesday by Gallup and the Knight Foundation found that "forty percent of Republicans say accurate news stories that cast a politician or political group in a negative light should 'always' be considered fake news."

Press advocacy groups are trying to fight back against this perception. And two Republican critics of the president, Senators Jeff Flake and John McCain, are publicly chastising his constant use of "fake news."

McCain called on Trump to stop attacking the press through an op-ed in Wednesday's Washington Post.

And Flake delivered a blistering floor speech on the subject on Wednesday.

"When a figure in power reflexively calls any press that doesn't suit him 'fake news,' it is that person who should be the figure of suspicion, not the press," Flake said.

CNNMoney's analysis of Trump's "fake" talk was produced using Factba.se, a web site that compiles all of Trump's speeches, interviews, tweets from the president's account, as well as other publicly available information. It was corroborated through other research tools, including Twitter's search functions.

Between January 20, 2017 and today, Trump has used the word "fake" at least 404 times in tweets and public appearances, sometimes more than once in the same sentence.

He has used it like a slur, deriding individual news outlets and the news media as a whole. He has derided "fake news suppression polls" and "fake news hate shows." Recently he has applied the term to Michael Wolff's "Fire and Fury," calling it a "fake book.