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On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump unleashed a flurry of tweets on his personal Twitter account lashing out at the mainstream media, calling them “fake news.”
Possibly originating from an undercover conservative sting video that captured a recording of a CNN health news producer criticizing his network’s political coverage of the Russian involvement in the 2016 election as “bull—t”, Trump accused the network of falling ratings.
Fake News CNN is looking at big management changes now that they got caught falsely pushing their phony Russian stories. Ratings way down!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 27, 2017
Nielsen has reported CNN viewership has increased 10 percent year-over-year, according to ratings from the second quarter released on Tuesday.
President Trump continued tweeting on this topic to criticize other media outlets such as NBC, ABC, Washington Post and the New York Times.
So they caught Fake News CNN cold, but what about NBC, CBS & ABC? What about the failing @nytimes & @washingtonpost? They are all Fake News!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 27, 2017
The president concluded this topic on Twitter with another attack on the New York Times, again labeling the newspaper’s coverage of his administration “fake news.”
The failing @nytimes writes false story after false story about me. They don’t even call to verify the facts of a story. A Fake News Joke!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 28, 2017
The New York Times reported total revenue of $399 million for the first quarter of 2017, up 5 percent from the same period in 2016. Its net income was about $13 million, compared with a net loss of roughly $14 million in the same period the year prior.
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