16 meeting with the director general of a Russian sovereign wealth fund.ĬNN publicly apologized to Trump transition team member Anthony Scaramucci and ousted three staffers over the story, which was based on a single, unnamed source and admittedly didn’t meet the network’s “editorial standards.” The escalation of hostilities followed CNN’s recent retraction of a report claiming a Trump ally was under investigation by the feds over a purported Jan. His remarks prompted cheers, applause and a standing ovation from the crowd inside the John F. The dishonest media will NEVER keep us from accomplishing our objectives on behalf of our GREAT AMERICAN PEOPLE! #AmericaFirst?? /jSciqzAs6G “The fake media tried to stop us from going to the White House, but I’m president and they’re not.”
“The fake media is trying to silence us, but we will not let them because the people know the truth,” Trump says in the clip. Later in the day, Trump doubled down on his willingness to go to the mat by tweeting video of his Saturday appearance at a gathering of evangelical Christians in Washington, DC. It’s rich that some of you people can never take a joke.”
“Glad Scavino and the president did that.”Īnother unnamed senior Trump aide noted: “The president fights back. “I thought it was funny,” one official told the Daily Beast. Top White House officials made light of the online battle royal, with one giving partial credit for Trump’s video attack to Dan Scavino, the president’s former caddy-turned-social media director. “Instead of preparing for his overseas trip, his first meeting with Vladimir Putin, dealing with North Korea and working on his health care bill, he is instead involved in juvenile behavior far below the dignity of his office,” CNN said in a statement. The brawler-in-chief’s video broadside - which he captioned “#FraudNewsCNN #FNN” - spurred the network to immediately jump into the fray and accuse Trump of goofing off ahead of his Wednesday departure for the G20 summit meeting in Germany.
The doctored clip shows Trump using a “clothesline” maneuver to flatten an opponent with CNN’s logo in place of his head, then pummeling him into submission on the ringside floor. President Trump signaled Sunday that he’s ready to rumble with the mainstream news media - tweeting a video in which he takes down CNN with a vicious pro-wrestling move. Outlets hurt by dwindling public interest in news in 2021Įlon Musk says he's 'not perverted enough' to appear on CNN 'Sayonara sucker!' Andy Cohen gives de Blasio a New Year's sendoffĬuomo bros could rebound from terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year: experts