White House launches website to excoriate media for ‘biased’ stories | US news
The White House on Friday launched a new section on its official website that publicly criticizes and catalogs media outlets and journalists who it claims are distorting the news.
at the top pageits text reads: “Misleading. Biased. Exposed.” This piece names the Boston Globe, CBS News, and the Independent as “media criminals of the week” and accuses them of falsely portraying Trump’s remarks about six Democratic lawmakers who released a video encouraging military members to disobey illegal orders.
The controversy emerged after Trump accused Democrats on social media of “seditious behavior punishable by death.” He also reposted a statement that included the words “Hang them.”
According to the site, “Democrats and the Fake News Media have devastatingly insinuated that President Trump gave illegal orders to soldiers. Every order President Trump gave was legal. Seating members of Congress to incite insubordination in the U.S. military is dangerous, and President Trump has called for them to be held accountable.”
The online page also features a “Criminal Hall of Shame” that includes the Washington Post, CBS News, CNN and MSNBC (now known as MS Now). Visitors can browse a searchable database of articles with the names of the journalists who wrote the articles. Each story is categorized with labels such as “prejudice,” “malpractice,” or “leftist lunacy.”
The leaderboard currently shows the Washington Post as the top offender; MSNBC and CBS News come in second and third place.
Among the Washington Post articles mentioned is one report Earlier this month, the U.S. Coast Guard said it would stop classifying swastikas and nooses as symbols of hate, an action the Coast Guard reversed after the article was published.
Post acknowledged this quick return to follow article. in it coverage The newspaper quoted an internal spokesperson as saying of the new tracker: “The Washington Post prides itself on its accurate and rigorous journalism.”
In addition to those singled out as weekly offenders, the White House page lists the Associated Press, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Politico and Axios among a long list of outlets it accuses of bias or misinformation.
The launch of the web page is the latest escalation in Trump’s long-running attacks on the media. This follows lawsuits against the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, legal settlements with ABC and CBS, and repeated references to major news organizations as “enemies of the people.”
Trump has also intensified his personal attacks against female journalists in recent weeks. Earlier this month, he referred to a Bloomberg News reporter as a “piggy” during a confrontation aboard Air Force One after the president was questioned about the Epstein files.
Days later, faced with questioning from an ABC News reporter about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi and the Epstein scandal, Trump responded by calling the reporter a “terrible person.”
Last week, in a post on Truth Social, Trump called the New York Times reporter “a third-rate reporter who is ugly inside and out,” following an article he co-wrote that suggested the president had waned energy in his 80th year.
