Donald Trump slammed the the media as “disgraceful” and “unbelievably dishonest” on Sunday, singling out CNN as the “Clinton News Network.”
“I’ve got tremendous confidence and tremendous respect for certain reporters,” Trump said in an interview on Fox News. “But a large portion of the media is disgustingly dishonest. I could name every one of them that are that way, and probably someday I will, but they … should be ashamed of themselves.”
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“I’m very proud of the fact at rallies we’ll have 10,000 and 15 and 20,000 or more, I will call the media out,” Trump added. “I think the word has gotten through … if you take a look at what’s happened, how could that happen if people really believe the media? Because all they want to do is write negatively about me. It is so biased.
“We talked about CNN. It’s called the Clinton News Network … it is so biased it’s ridiculous, and they’re very dishonest, very dishonest people, so I called them out and I’m very proud of it. And now I see the [media’s] poll numbers are at an all time low, and frankly I think I had something to do with that, but I’m very proud of it.”
A Gallup poll released this week found just 32 percent of Americans have a “great deal” or “fair amount” of trust in the media, while 27 percent said they had no trust. The numbers represent a record low for the media since Gallup began conducting the survey in 1972.
