WASHINGTON: Donald Trump unveiled the winners of his much-touted "Fake News Awards" overdue Wednesday, escalating his already continual attacks on a variety of major US media shops.
The awards dropped hours after a senator from Trump's own Republican celebration hurled a stinging rebuke on the president, accusing the US chief of undermining the unfastened press with Stalinist language.
The brash Republican president introduced the ten "honorees" the use of his preferred medium of Twitter, linking to a listing published on the Republican Party's website that crashed mins after his big expose.
The "winners" of the spoof awards integrated top networks and newspapers CNN, The New York Times and The Washington Post, all of that have been regular targets of Trump's ire.
Nobel-prize winning economist Paul Krugman, who writes a typical opinion column for The New York Times, nabbed the number 1 spot.
The management said he merited the award for writing "on the day of President Trump's historic, landslide victory that the economy would never recover."
Following the previous reality celebrity's stunning upward thrust to power, Krugman had written that Trump's inexperience on economic coverage and unpredictability risked additional harmful the susceptible international economic system.
The record also pointed to a reporting error from ABC's veteran reporter Brian Ross, who was suspended for 4 weeks without pay after he was compelled to proper a bombshell record on ex-Trump aide Michael Flynn.
In follow-up tweets to his "Fake News" announcement, the commander-in-chief posted that "despite some very corrupt and dishonest media coverage, there are many great reporters I respect and lots of GOOD NEWS for the American people to be proud of!"
"Together there is nothing we can't overcome -- even a very biased media. We ARE Making America Great Again!"
Earlier in the day Republican Senator Jeff Flake had slammed what he referred to as the president's bad omit for the reality, and his designation of the mainstream news media as an "enemy of the people."
The awards dropped hours after a senator from Trump's own Republican celebration hurled a stinging rebuke on the president, accusing the US chief of undermining the unfastened press with Stalinist language.
The brash Republican president introduced the ten "honorees" the use of his preferred medium of Twitter, linking to a listing published on the Republican Party's website that crashed mins after his big expose.
The "winners" of the spoof awards integrated top networks and newspapers CNN, The New York Times and The Washington Post, all of that have been regular targets of Trump's ire.
And the FAKE NEWS winners are... https://t.co/59G6x2f7fD
— Donald J. Trump (@actualDonaldTrump) 1516237205000 Nobel-prize winning economist Paul Krugman, who writes a typical opinion column for The New York Times, nabbed the number 1 spot.
The management said he merited the award for writing "on the day of President Trump's historic, landslide victory that the economy would never recover."
Following the previous reality celebrity's stunning upward thrust to power, Krugman had written that Trump's inexperience on economic coverage and unpredictability risked additional harmful the susceptible international economic system.
The record also pointed to a reporting error from ABC's veteran reporter Brian Ross, who was suspended for 4 weeks without pay after he was compelled to proper a bombshell record on ex-Trump aide Michael Flynn.
In follow-up tweets to his "Fake News" announcement, the commander-in-chief posted that "despite some very corrupt and dishonest media coverage, there are many great reporters I respect and lots of GOOD NEWS for the American people to be proud of!"
"Together there is nothing we can't overcome -- even a very biased media. We ARE Making America Great Again!"
Earlier in the day Republican Senator Jeff Flake had slammed what he referred to as the president's bad omit for the reality, and his designation of the mainstream news media as an "enemy of the people."
Trump reveals winners of 'Fake News Awards'
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