President Donald Trump, defending his decision to ban CNN and two other media outlets from the White House, argued Monday that the press has “an obligation” to report on his accomplishments.
But Trump immediately cited two supposed accomplishments that do not actually exist.
We don’t report that he “settled eight wars” because he didn’t. We don’t report that there is “$21 trillion pouring in” to the United States because there isn’t. Both numbers are wildly inflated.
In other words, Trump’s examples of the great news the press is supposedly failing to cover are actually examples of why an independent press is necessary to provide the facts when public officials won’t. CNN, Politico and MS NOW, the three outlets subject to Trump’s ban and now suing the White House over it, have all published stories pointing out the holes in the president’s assertions about wars supposedly ended and investments supposedly secured.
Trump spoke about the White House ban during a Monday press conference in New York City with Mayor Zohran Mamdani. When Trump was asked why he announced the ban, he said, “I’m only doing it because I think the press also has an obligation. And, you know, I won in a landslide, I won the election in a landslide. I’ve done great things, I’ve done a lot of great things. I’ve settled eight wars. We have the best economic numbers for the country, in the history of our country. We have $21 trillion pouring in.”
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