Article snippet: In a searing speech on the Senate floor Wednesday morning, Sen. Joseph Stalin. In the remarks from the Senate floor, Flake, R-Ariz., pointed to the Soviet Union's 30-year dictator as seeming inspiration for Trump's attacks against the press, singling out a phrase that each used to refer to their interpreted opposition. "It is a testament to the condition of our democracy that our own president uses words infamously spoken by Joseph Stalin to describe his enemies," Flake said. "It bears noting that so fraught with malice was the phrase 'enemy of the people,' that 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." Flake, long an outspoken critic of the president, planned his speech to coincide with the announced date of Trump's "Philippines, Venezuela, Myanmar and Singapore. "This feedback loop is disgraceful, Mr. President," said Flake, addressing Trump. "Not only has the past year seen an American president borrow despotic language to refer to the free press, but it seems he has in turn inspired dictators and authoritarians with his own language. This is reprehensible." The speech was the senator's second such address targeting Trump from the Senate floor in the last three months. In October, Flake passionately decried what he called the "regular and casual undermining of our democratic ... Link to the full article to read more