President Trump suggested his administration look at starting its own news network while railing against CNN and the rest of the news media during a speech in Florida on Thursday.
“CNN is a voice that really seems to be a voice out there, and it’s a terrible thing for our country. And we ought to start our own network and put some real news out there,” Trump said during the speech in The Villages, Fla., on Thursday afternoon.
“They are so bad for our country,” he continued. “They are so bad for our country. I go out there and they say, ‘Boy, the media hates your country,’ and it’s just a shame. It’s just a shame. And we really are.”
“We are looking at that,” Trump went on. “We should do something about it, too. Put some really talented people and get a real voice out there. Not a voice that’s fake.”
A reporter for Voice of America, which is a multimedia agency funded by the U.S. government, responded to the president’s comments on Twitter shortly after.
“Despite his remark, @POTUS should be well aware @VOANews is still around as he has given the US-government operated broadcaster two on-camera interviews and regularly answers questions from me and @pwidakuswara (he responded to her query this morning about the Taliban),” Steve Herman, the White House Bureau chief for the news platform, wrote in a tweet.
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