As Congress grapples to pass a budget by Friday to evade a federal government shutdown, President Donald Trump published his “Fake News Awards” on the Republican National Committee’s website Wednesday evening.
But the “awards” are mostly just a list of reporting mistakes that were corrected or retracted by major news outlets, like The New York Times, ABC News and CNN this past year.
Well-known errors, like ABC’s Brian Ross’ mix-up on the timing in which former national security adviser Michael Flynn told Trump to talk to Russian officials or CNN’s retracted story on Anthony Scaramucci’s contact with Russians, were the main components of the list. In several cases, an employee was suspended or resigned over their mistakes. All the major news outlets named in the “Fake News” list have clear ethical and editorial policies that inform their reporting standards and how to handle corrections.
Other “winners” on the list were columnists who wrote negative opinion pieces about the President or simply Trump’s tweets correcting reporters. The 11th place winner was the “RUSSIA COLLUSION!” story.
“Russian collusion is perhaps the greatest hoax perpetrated on the American people. THERE IS NO COLLUSION!” the RNC said.
Trump has been touting his “Fake News Awards” contest for months, claiming he would call out the “MOST DISHONEST & CORRUPT” members of the media.
The whole concept of acknowledging an error and making amends is foreign to him. He considers it a sign of weakness.
OTOH, do you get the impression that he expected a different reaction to his “Fake News Awards”? The whole idea has been met with universal ridicule (except for Fox, and they have a different agenda). You have to wonder if they thought that the media would be cowering in fear of “winning” one of the mentions.
I am surprised that the story in the Slovenian Suzy magazine that First Lady Melaria Trump, who is a highly qualified architect, model, dancer, and movie star, provided other high end services in exchange for money does not rank among the fake news awards stories. Melaria, Iwank, Don Jr. and Eric Trump are more talented than Stormy Daniels and the visitors to the Moscow Ritz Carlton.
Fucking idiot flaps gums
World continues to turn.
The North Koreans had it right when they called him a “Yapping Dog”
So the “Fake New Awards” were fake news? Imagine that!
And a “Dotard.”
The fakest news comes from FOX and from the fake President.