President Donald Trump went on a tear against multiple media outlets he accused of completely fabricating stories while predicting that both CNN and MSNBC will be “turned off” on Friday.
Trump spoke from the White House on Friday with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and announced that the Air Force is moving forward with a new F-47 jet. The president was also asked about a New York Times report published the day prior that claimed Elon Musk was going to be briefed by Pentagon officials on plans for a potential war with China. The report cited two U.S. officials.
Hegseth said Musk did meet with Pentagon officials on Friday, but it was to discuss his work with DOGE and there was no discussion of any war plans. Trump also noted Musk’s business connections to China and said Musk “wouldn’t want to put himself in that position.” Trump had refuted the story earlier in the day in a Truth Social post claiming the “Fake News is at it again.”
While discussing Musk’s Pentagon meeting, Trump raged against the “fake news” media and called the Times a “failing” paper.
“If you read what is out of The New York Times, it’s such a dishonest newspaper, it’s is such garbage. It used to be called all the news that’s fit to print, well it’s all the news that’s not fit to print. They have fake sources or they don’t have sources,” the president said. “I think they make most of it up. But this was a made-up story by The New York Times. I call it The Failing — it’s a failing newspaper. They shouldn’t do that. They really are the enemy of the people,” said the president.
Trump then called out CNN and MSNBC for lagging ratings and predicted the networks would be “turned off.”
“We do need honest journalism. We made such big strides over the last two months, but we just need honest journalism and we just don’t have it,” he said. “When you have an CNN — you have to watch these people every once in a while just to see where they are coming from, and it’s so dishonest. MSNBC is I think probably worse. They are both doing horribly in the ratings. I think they’re going to be turned off. They’re not doing any ratings.”
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