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On Sunday morning the president's personal Twitter account, which has 33 million followers, posted a 28-second video of a WWE broadcast. The video was edited to show Trump beating up a man with a CNN logo on his face.
A short time later, the official @POTUS account retweeted Trump's tweet to its 19 million followers. It is one of the president's most-shared, most-retweeted posts ever.
Sunday marked another escalation in Trump's ongoing war against the news media -- and against CNN in particular.
Trump, a frequent CNN viewer, regularly lashes out at the network's coverage.
Some of his fans laughed at the video. Others rolled their eyes. But it was taken seriously by members of the media, some of whom have faced threats for their reporting.
Some Twitter users flagged the tweet and reported it to the social networking company, saying it violated the company's terms of service prohibiting "hateful conduct." But Twitter said it determined that the tweet is not a violation.
In a statement, CNN called it a "sad day when the President of the United States encourages violence against reporters."
The statement brought up the fact that Trump's deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said just a few days ago that "the president in no way form or fashion has ever promoted or encouraged violence. If anything, quite the contrary."
"Clearly" Sanders "lied," the CNN statement said.
"Instead of preparing for his overseas trip, his first meeting with Vladimir Putin, dealing with North Korea and working on his health care bill, he is involved in juvenile behavior far below the dignity of his office," the statement added. "We will keep doing our jobs. He should start doing his."
Several journalism advocacy groups also weighed in.
"We condemn the president's threat of physical violence against journalists," the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press said. "This tweet is beneath the office of the presidency. Sadly, it is not beneath this president."
And Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The New York Times, said "I think it is unseemly that the president would attack journalists for doing their jobs, and encourage such anger at the media."
Before becoming president, Trump sometimes appeared at WWE matches and occasionally joined in the fighting. So it was relatively easy for someone to tweak the old video and superimpose the CNN logo onto the other fighter's face.
Who created the anti-CNN video? There was no immediate answer, but a version of the video appeared on a pro-Trump Reddit thread several days ago.
Some commentators, especially those inclined to support Trump, laughed at the video and savored the president's latest media critique.
Others derided the video as juvenile and unbecoming of the U.S. president.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/02/media/president-trump-cnn-video/index.html
On Sunday morning the president's personal Twitter account, which has 33 million followers, posted a 28-second video of a WWE broadcast. The video was edited to show Trump beating up a man with a CNN logo on his face.
A short time later, the official @POTUS account retweeted Trump's tweet to its 19 million followers. It is one of the president's most-shared, most-retweeted posts ever.
Sunday marked another escalation in Trump's ongoing war against the news media -- and against CNN in particular.
Trump, a frequent CNN viewer, regularly lashes out at the network's coverage.
Some of his fans laughed at the video. Others rolled their eyes. But it was taken seriously by members of the media, some of whom have faced threats for their reporting.
Some Twitter users flagged the tweet and reported it to the social networking company, saying it violated the company's terms of service prohibiting "hateful conduct." But Twitter said it determined that the tweet is not a violation.
In a statement, CNN called it a "sad day when the President of the United States encourages violence against reporters."
The statement brought up the fact that Trump's deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said just a few days ago that "the president in no way form or fashion has ever promoted or encouraged violence. If anything, quite the contrary."
"Clearly" Sanders "lied," the CNN statement said.
"Instead of preparing for his overseas trip, his first meeting with Vladimir Putin, dealing with North Korea and working on his health care bill, he is involved in juvenile behavior far below the dignity of his office," the statement added. "We will keep doing our jobs. He should start doing his."
Several journalism advocacy groups also weighed in.
"We condemn the president's threat of physical violence against journalists," the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press said. "This tweet is beneath the office of the presidency. Sadly, it is not beneath this president."
And Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The New York Times, said "I think it is unseemly that the president would attack journalists for doing their jobs, and encourage such anger at the media."
Before becoming president, Trump sometimes appeared at WWE matches and occasionally joined in the fighting. So it was relatively easy for someone to tweak the old video and superimpose the CNN logo onto the other fighter's face.
Who created the anti-CNN video? There was no immediate answer, but a version of the video appeared on a pro-Trump Reddit thread several days ago.
Some commentators, especially those inclined to support Trump, laughed at the video and savored the president's latest media critique.
Others derided the video as juvenile and unbecoming of the U.S. president.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/02/media/president-trump-cnn-video/index.html
