Jeff Flake to deliver speech comparing Trump to Stalin

United States Senator Jeff Flake is set to give a speech Wednesday to discuss President Donald Trump’s constant unruly verbal forays on mainstream media.

The Arizona Republican will deliver the message on the Senate Floor, which in an excerpt for the speech he says Trump ‘uses words infamously spoken by Joseph Stalin to describe his enemies.’

An excerpt for the talk reads: ‘It bears noting that so fraught with malice was the phrase ‘enemy of the people’.

‘Even Nikita Khrushchev forbade its use, telling the Soviet Communist Party that the phrase had been introduced by Stalin for the purpose of ‘annihilating such individuals’ who disagreed with the supreme leader.’ 

His talk comes after Flake announced in October he would no longer run for re-election following the ‘alarming and dangerous state of affairs’ under the Trump administration

The speech comes after Flake announced in October he would no longer run for re-election following the  ‘alarming and dangerous state of affairs’ under the Trump administration.

It also comes on the same day the President is expected to announced his own Fake News Awards, according to Trump.

He says the awards will be given out to the most corrupt and biased news outlets in mainstream media.

‘The interest in, and importance of, these awards is far greater than anyone could have anticipated!,’ Trump took to Twitter to announce.

Flake says Trump ‘uses words infamously spoken by Joseph Stalin to describe his enemies’

Trump took to Twitter to announce the new date for the Fake News Awards – which lands on the same day as Flake’s speech

Trump said last year the media outlets are not his enemy, but ‘the enemy of the American people’

While speaking with ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos this week, Flake ironically plans to discuss the falsehood of many of Trump’s remarks.

Flake says the year 2017 was ‘more battered and abused than any other in the history of the country, at the hands of the most powerful figure in our government.’

The excerpt goes on to say: ‘It was a year which saw the White House enshrine ‘alternative facts’ into the American lexicon, as justification for what used to be known simply as good old-fashioned falsehoods.

‘It was the year in which an unrelenting daily assault on the constitutionally-protected free press was launched by that same White House, an assault that is as unprecedented as it is unwarranted,’ the passage said.