Trump declares ‘Fake News’ award-winners

Washington, January 18

US President Donald Trump has declared ‘The New York Times’ as the winner of the ‘Fake News Award’. Others in Trump’s unique award were ‘ABC News’, ‘CNN’, ‘Time’ and ‘The Washington Post’. Trump announced the award by a tweet yesterday.

The website GOP.Com where the winners were listed crashed soon after Trump announced the awards. “2017 was a year of unrelenting bias, unfair news coverage, and even downright fake news. Studies have shown that over 90 per cent of the media’s coverage of President Trump is negative,” it said.

Topping the list was The New York Times’ Paul Krugman story which claimed on the day of Trump’s historic, landslide victory that the economy would never recover.

ABC News’ Brian Ross was positioned second. It “CHOKES and sends markets in a downward spiral with false report,” the website said. ‘CNN’ received the third prize for reporting that candidate Donald Trump and his son Donald J Trump Jr had access to hacked documents from WikiLeaks. — PTI

POTUS’ dishonest media  

• The New York Times: Placed first for  claiming on the day of Trump’s victory that the economy would never recover
• ABC News: Ranked second. It “CHOKES and sends markets in a downward spiral with false report.”
• CNN: Received the third prize for reporting that Trump and his son Donald J Trump Jr had access to hacked documents from WikiLeaks
• Time: Placed fourth for reporting that  Trump removed a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. from the Oval Office
• The Washington Post: Placed last for reporting Trump’s massive sold-out rally in Pensacola, Florida was empty