President Trump took his antagonizing of CNN to a new level on Tuesday, issuing an all-caps, screaming press release attacking the network for refusing to air an ad that his team had produced.
The ad in question was released on Monday and is clearly an attempt to counter the cascade of reports noting that the first 100 days of Trump’s time in office have been marked by little in the way of actual legislative accomplishments.
The Trump team’s counter to these reports is to note, among other things, that Trump got a Supreme Court pick confirmed in his first 100 days. Such is noted in the ad that is at the center of this controversy.
The issue with that claim, however, is that only a tiny handful of Presidents have even faced a Supreme Court vacancy in their first 100 days. Thus, for Trump to say that he’s done something spectacular because he got a Supreme Court pick confirmed is really a non-starter.
In addition to that, the reasoning that the new Trump campaign ad offers up for why it is that voters haven’t heard about the supposed success of the infantile Trump presidency is, unsurprisingly, because all the mainstream media does is peddle “fake news.”
President Trump, of course, has stuck to this talking point for pretty much the entire time that he’s been in the public spotlight, dismissing public concerns with the functioning of his administration as nothing more than the work of fake news.
Unsurprisingly, CNN refused to air this crapshoot of an ad, prompting the Trump team to take to social media to scream about “censorship.”
The press release that his still functioning campaign team issued on Tuesday makes the following ridiculous claim: “CNN takes issue with the ad’s message calling out the mainstream media for peddling fake news and not reporting on the fact that President Trump is making America great again.”
CNN has now responded to the latest round of antagonizing from the Trump team, issuing a statement which reads, in part:
‘CNN requested that the advertiser remove the false graphic that says mainstream media is “fake news.” The mainstream media is not fake news, and therefore the ad is false. Per our policy, it will be accepted only if that graphic is deleted. Those are the facts.’
In response to the Donald J. Trump for President campaign’s accusations of ad censorship: pic.twitter.com/0Rbanpf0dn
— CNN Communications (@CNNPR) May 2, 2017
Featured Image via Andrew Harrer/ Bloomberg via Getty Images.
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