FAKE NEWS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After a year of berating the mainstream media, President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday that he will be presenting ‘awards’ Monday [1-8-18] to what he considers to be the worst of the worst…
It is unclear how the president intends to carry out the unprecedented gesture against the news media. But in November, Trump floated the idea of awarding a ‘fake news trophy’ to media outlets to mark their ‘distorted’ coverage of his presidency…
The president has frequently lambasted the media for what he has cast as biased reporting, routinely dismissing damaging reports about his administration as ‘fake news’ and accusing journalists of being tied to the Democratic Party.
Trump offered a back-handed to the newly named publisher of the New York Times A.G. Sulzberger earlier Tuesday, reigniting his public feud with the newspaper he gave an exclusive interview to the week prior…
President Trump has frequently singled out the Times, the Washington Post, CNN and other outlets for criticism of their reporting on the White House.”
-Cristiano Lima, “Trump to present ‘dishonest & corrupt media awards’,” Politico, Jan. 2, 2018 08:48pm