President Trump lashed out at Fox News today, targeting several figures at the network in a series of tweets claiming that the network was “being fed Democrat talking points.”
In a series of tweets this afternoon, Trump called for an “alternative” to the right-leaning news network.
Trump attacked numerous figures in the tweets, including former Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who joined the board of Fox News in March of last year, and former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Donna Brazile, who was accused of leaking CNN town hall questions to then-candidate Hillary Clinton during the Democratic primary in 2016.
His criticism also targeted “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace, who he said was “nastier to Republicans than even Deface the Nation or Sleepy Eyes,” referring to CBS’s “Face the Nation” and NBC’s Chuck Todd, host of “Meet the Press” and “Meet the Press Daily.”
Trump said ‘people that know me’ believe that he’s the ‘hardest working president in history’ and went after The New York Times for reporting he’s ‘angrily’ eating hamburgers and drinking Diet Cokes in bed.
Trump said he’s often working late at night in the Oval Office instead.
Trump then mistakenly suggested that the Times’ reporters had received a ‘Noble’ prize for their work reporting on Russia’s role in influencing the 2016 presidential election and the country’s ties to Trump’s team.
The New York Times and The Washington Post were awarded a Pulitzer for their efforts.
Trump was referring to a Nobel Peace Prize.
‘When will all of the “reporters” who have received Noble Prizes for their work on Russia, Russia, Russia, only to have been proven totally wrong (and, in fact, it was the other side who committed the crimes), be turning back their cherished “Nobles” so that they can be given to the REAL REPORTERS & JOURNALISTS who got it right,’ Trump wrote.
‘I can give the Committee a very comprehensive list,’ he added. ‘When will the Noble Committee DEMAND the Prizes back, especially since they were gotten under fraud? The reporters and Lamestream Media knew the truth all along.’
‘Lawsuits should be brought against all, including the Fake News Organizations, to rectify this terrible injustice. For all of the great lawyers out there, do we have any takers? When will the Noble Committee Act? Better be fast!’ Trump wrote.
The likely story in question, penned by two Times journalists – Annie Karni and Katie Rogers – said that the president hasn’t been showing up in the Oval Office until as late as noon. His mood is ‘sour’ and he spends all morning watching TV coverage of his handling of the coronavirus crisis.
It says Trump ‘rarely’ attends the coronavirus taskforce meetings before briefing the press. And he doesn’t prepare for the press briefing.
The story doesn’t mention hamburgers – nor the president eating them in bed.
‘Comfort food — including French fries and Diet Coke — is readily available,’ the story does say.
Ryan and Romney are both so jealous they didn’t get to the Presidency they can’t stand it! They would do anything to stomp on Mr. Trump! I hope they both trip and fall and break their noses. They would rather see this country sink in the toilet than help. Why don’t they move to another country? They sure can afford it with all the money they robbed from the rest of America!!