President Donald Trump expressed outrage at the media in a series of tweets early Wednesday morning, bashing CNN and MSNBC while praising Fox News’ morning show “Fox & Friends.”
The fake news media is going crazy with their conspiracy theories and blind hatred. @MSNBC & @CNN are unwatchable. @foxandfriends is great!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 15, 2017
This Russian connection non-sense is merely an attempt to cover-up the many mistakes made in Hillary Clinton's losing campaign.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 15, 2017
CNN and MSNBC have been aggressive in covering Trump, quick to point out falsehoods coming from the White House, while Fox News appears to be friendlier to the administration. The opinion-based primetime lineup on Fox News features Trump allies such as the conservative Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, but the network’s straight news midday programming has been critical of Trump.
Trump’s attacks weren’t only directed at cable news networks. Newspapers got their share of criticism, too.
Information is being illegally given to the failing @nytimes & @washingtonpost by the intelligence community (NSA and FBI?).Just like Russia
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 15, 2017
It seems that Trump is worked up over a Tuesday night report by the New York Times that members of his campaign team and their associates had repeated contact with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the presidential election.
The communication was detected by American law enforcement and intelligence agencies around the time it came to light that Russia was trying to hack the Democratic National Committee, three officials said, according to the Times.
Meanwhile, Trump also thanked a Bloomberg reporter who wrote a positive article about the situation.
Thank you to Eli Lake of The Bloomberg View – "The NSA & FBI…should not interfere in our politics…and is" Very serious situation for USA
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 15, 2017
Attacking the media on Twitter is nothing new for Trump, who has referred to the mainstream media as the “opposition party.” Recently, CNN’s Anderson Cooper joked that Trump watches too much cable news.
“He watches me on CNN more than my mom watches me on CNN,” Cooper said on “Late Night with Seth Meyers.”