Kristen Welker and her husband own a home in Washington, D.C., but the NBC correspondent also occupies spacious accommodations in Donald Trump’s cranium. Call it the presidential suite.

In June, he abruptly stalked out of a televised interview with her after saying she was “crooked.” On Sunday, furious that the “Meet the Press” host had truthfully noted the “mixed results” of his recent candidate endorsements, he posted that “she will be reported to the FCC for rebuke or punishment.”

This is just the latest confirmation that Trump’s sworn oath to uphold the Constitution did not include the First Amendment, which forbids the government from “abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” Every president, it’s safe to say, has despised certain journalists and felt unfairly treated by the news media. But none has ever waged such a broad and unrelenting assault on press freedom.

Among the numerous examples: For this week’s meeting of G-20 finance ministers in North Carolina, the Treasury Department refused credentials to reporters from The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and Bloomberg News. Trump has sued newspapers and networks over unflattering coverage.

He banned Associated Press reporters from many presidential events after the news service declined to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf........

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