ABC 7 El Paso reporter Michael Gordon is being praised by fellow reporters for remaining professional and calm while being subjected to verbal abuse by a deranged supporter of President Trump.

The local reporter shared a short clip of some of the abuse he received from an unidentified woman seen carrying a sign that called a group of news outlets “fake” news, a refrain frequently used by Trump to attack news coverage critical of his administration.

“Hi Fake news,” the woman said while jumping and waving at the camera. She then chanted, “Fake ass news!,” before pointing at the reporter and yelling: “You all are fake. You’re fake.”

In a second clip shared by Gordon, what appeared to be the same woman can be heard yelling expletives at the news crew: “Get the f*ck out of my face fake news bitch!”

Several of Gordon’s colleagues praised him for his professionalism on Twitter.

Eric Spillman of KTLA-TV in Los Angeles tweeted about the incident, “Excellent work under challenging conditions. It’s this kind of behavior I find frightening. The next step is violence. We should all be worried.”

Freelance reporter Rebecca Aguilar noted, “Kudos to you. I would have called the cops and said I felt that I was in danger. I am glad you are OK.”

FOX5’s Tom Fitzgerald tweeted: “Never been prouder of one my all-time favorite former @Fox5DC interns @MichaelGordonTV. He’s not only more than come into his own career, but gives a master class here in ‘never let them see you sweat.’ Kudos Michael!”

Since announcing his candidacy in the 2016 presidential elections to the end of his second year in office, Trump has sent 1,339 tweets about the media that were critical, insinuating, condemning, or threatening.

The term “fake news” did not appear in Trump’s tweets until after he was elected.

Overall, in each of the first two years in office the term was used in over half his negative tweets about the press.

Trump’s use of the term “enemy of the people” was first used on February 17, 2017, one day after the Trump campaign team distributed a survey urging supporters to “do your part to fight back against the media’s attacks and deceptions.”

There is growing evidence that Trump’s attacks are endangering reporters’ lives, fueling an unprecedented wave of violent threats against them.

In February, the BBC’s Ron Skeans was shoved and sworn at by a man in a Make America Great Again cap in El Paso.

The BBC later asked the White House to review security for media attending President Trump’s rallies.

Last August UN experts warned Trump’s attacks “increase the risk of journalists being targeted with violence”, calling his rhetoric “strategic”.

New York Times publisher AG Sulzberger has urged the president to stop his media assaults.

Trump’s taunts have increased this year, and in recent weeks he has added some stark hyperbole, smearing American journalists as “the most vicious and corrupt ever” and “the most hostile in the history of American politics.”

A senior US law enforcement agent knowledgeable about the problem said Trump has walked a fine line with “inciting violence” and warned “people could get injured or killed.”

And that was a month before a Trump supporter in Florida sent pipe bombs to Democratic leaders and the offices of CNN.