Trump is bragging about the damage he’s done to the press
In a Truth Social post, the president cited high-profile TV news exits, public media defunding and canceled shows as proof he is ‘winning’
Lost in the midst of President Donald Trump’s constant complaining about media coverage of the war in Iran, as well as FCC commissioner Brendan Carr’s threats to networks, was a weekend post on Trump’s Truth Social that revealed just how much contempt the president has toward the press.
In the remarkably distressing post, Trump bragged about the damage he has done to the media.
Under a section called “Gone,” Trump boasted of how PBS and NPR have been defunded. He mentioned Meta dropping third-party fact-checking, massive Washington Post layoffs and the decline of cable ratings. He celebrated the upcoming end of Stephen Colbert’s late-night show on CBS, and how some journalists are no longer with the TV networks where they once worked — Chuck Todd (NBC), Joy Reid (formerly MSNBC), Terry Moran (ABC), Jim Acosta (CNN) and John Dickerson (CBS). He also wrongly mentioned NBC’s Lester Holt, who is no longer the anchor of the “NBC Nightly News,” but still is with the network, hosting “Dateline.”
Then, under another heading titled “Reforms,” Trump took more bows for changing the media.
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Whether it’s the Des Moines Register’s publication of an unfavorable election poll, a routine edit of a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, or the Associated Press’s decision in its authoritative stylebook to continue to use “Gulf of Mexico,” Donald Trump and the White House have used executive authority and legal reprisals in an effort to punish and suppress press coverage that runs contrary to the administration’s preferred narratives.
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