In a very entertaining series of posts on his Truth Social social media platform, President Donald Trump went scorched earth on the media complex, slamming the cable news stations that are reliant on licenses from the FCC yet spend all their time lying about him and attacking him, suggesting that they might lose their licenses.
For reference, what appeared to set President Trump off and caused him to attack the media complex is a report from a conservative-leaning media watchdog group called the Media Research Center (MRC), which found that the media’s coverage of President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office was “92% negative.”
The president’s series of posts about how awful and unfair the media is began late in the night on Sunday, August 24, with the president claiming that his poll numbers are some of the highest ever, but the media doesn’t want to report honestly on them. He said, “Except what is written and broadcast in the Fake News, I now have the highest poll numbers I’ve ever had, some in the 60’s and even 70’s. Thank you. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”
Continuing his blitz against the media, the president posted again about a quarter of an hour later, misreferencing the MRC report that appears to have sparked his anger by claiming that the negative coverage rate is “97%” rather than the 92% that the MRC found in its in-depth study of how his second administration has been covered.
Posting about that, the president called out two notriously woke cable news stations in particular, saying, “Despite a very high popularity and, according to many, among the greatest 8 months in Presidential History, ABC & NBC FAKE NEWS, two of the worst and most biased networks in history, give me 97% BAD STORIES.”
Adding to that, the president said that he would be in favor of seeing them get their licenses revoked, writing, “IF THAT IS THE CASE, THEY ARE SIMPLY AN ARM OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY AND SHOULD, ACCORDING TO MANY, HAVE THEIR LICENSES REVOKED BY THE FCC. I would be totally in favor of that because they are so biased and untruthful, an actual threat to our Democracy!!! MAGA”
Still not done with his anti-media tirade, the president chimed back in about an hour after his second post, alleging that the same two cable news stations aren’t paying their proper fees and are the most biased of all. He said, “Why is it that ABC and NBC FAKE NEWS, two of the absolute worst and most biased networks anywhere in the World, aren’t paying Millions of Dollars a year in LICENSE FEES.”
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Building on that, he insisted that the woke stations should either have to pony up and pay properly for their use of the airwaves, or lose their licenses for their biased, slanted coverage. He said, “They should lose their Licenses for their unfair coverage of Republicans and/or Conservatives, but at a minimum, they should pay up BIG for having the privilege of using the most valuable airwaves anywhere at anytime!!! Crooked “journalism” should not be rewarded, it should be terminated!!!”
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