President Trump went on a multi-post rant on how MSNBC is misreporting his tariffs.
“MSNBC, the worst there is on Television misrepresentation, is so far knowingly off in their statements about me and Tariffs that it should be considered a Major Campaign Violation,” Mr. Trump wrote on social media Friday. “They are nothing less than an arm of the Democratic National Committee, and their untruths are incredible, real losers.”
He said the network’s “ratings are down the tubes, but that pressure on them doesn’t give them the right to lie and cheat!”
In another post, he targeted MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle as “exhausted [and] highly neurotic.”
He said he watched her “spew LIES about Tariffs, as do many others, in order not to give me the Victory that they all see coming.”
On her show last night, Ms. Ruhle discussed Mr. Trump’s trade deal he announced Thursday with the U.K. and questioned “how big it is.”
She bashed the 10% tariff on goods from Britain, saying the U.S. doesn’t have a trade deficit with the nation.
“It’s a concept of a deal,” she said. “Does that sound familiar?”
She called the agreement a “dressed-up framework to distract us from real challenges ahead.”
Mr. Trump said in his post that Ms. Ruhle “doesn’t have what it takes.”
He added, “Our deal with the United Kingdom yesterday was AMAZING for both Countries and, in addition to everything else, British Airways just ordered $10 Billion Dollars worth of new Boeing planes.”
He said tariffs will bring the U.S. “a fortune” and only “smart people understand that.”
“MSDNC has become the Voice of the Democrat Party, and they should be treated as a Political Advocate with all of the Taxes and Penalties therefrom. Their Ratings are terrible, but Brian Roberts and his crew should be forced to TELL THE TRUTH,” he said, referring to the CEO of Comcast, which owns MSNBC.
In a separate post, the president hit The Wall Street Journal, calling it a “highly inaccurate, ‘China Centric’” paper.
He suggested that Keith Poole, editor-in-chief of the New York Post, take over the Journal.
He said it would be an “easy move” for Rupert Murdoch, the former chairman of Fox Corp. and News Corp., the latter of which owns the Post and Journal.
“Such a change would be a GREAT DAY for America, but not a Great Day for China!” the president said.
Mr. Trump tore into a Journal reporter last weekend on Air Force One after the reporter asked about his talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Boy, you people treat us so badly. Wall Street Journal has truly gone to hell. … Rotten newspaper. You hear me, what I said? It’s a rotten newspaper,” Mr. Trump said.
When the reporter reiterated the question, the president said he “wouldn’t tell the Wall Street Journal because I’d be wasting my time.”
“There are talks, but I don’t want to talk to the Wall Street Journal. Look, Wall Street Journal is China-oriented, and they’re really bad for this country,” he said.
Earlier this week, he continued his 2024 attack on CBS News’ “60 Minutes” interview with Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. The president ripped CBS’ editing of Ms. Harris’ word salad as “election interfering.”
“On top of that, in a total slap in the face to anyone who believes in TRUTH and Honest Journalism, this Fake News Puff Piece has now been nominated for an award by the totally discredited Emmys. Did 60 Minutes and its Corporate Parents apply to get an Emmy for an illegally falsified interview, or did other Fake Outlets nominate them for this dubious ‘honor?’” he wrote.
Mr. Trump said the CBS transcript showed that the interview was “nothing but fake, corrupt, anti-Trump propaganda.”
He said it’s an example of why Americans “have no trust in the press and demand that the Media, very much including 60 Minutes, CBS, and its owners, be held responsible for their corruption and lies.”
Mr. Trump filed a lawsuit for damages last November against CBS over the interview because his lawyers say it tried to “mislead the public” with its “partisan and unlawful acts of election and voter interference.”
The president’s lawyers and Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS, entered mediation over the lawsuit last week.
