In his recent confrontation with the American media, President Trump said the media deliberately did not report a terrorist attack. In his speech to the American military leaders at MacDill Air Force Base on Monday.
U.S. President Donald Trump and the media did not get along very well lately, and he went off on Monday, Feb. 6 to criticize the press. Speaking in front of the U.S. Central Command he claimed that media intentionally covered up reports on terrorist attacks according to report from Washington Post.
“You’ve seen what happened in Paris, and Nice. All over Europe,” President Trump said in his remark. “It’s gotten to a point where it’s not even being reported.”
Prior to his speech, President Trump took the social media to criticize the press. He said the New York Times to write a total fiction about him and his staffs with the recent report. He also repeatedly referred news from the news outlets such as CNN, ABC and NBC as fake news.
Following his remark, White House released the list of 78 terrorist attacks from around the world as reported by Daily Telegraph. The White House said those terror attacks did not receive enough attention from the media.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said President Trump remarks was about the media to "under-reporting” the terrorist attacks, instead of "not reporting" them.
Spicer said before revealing the list that the protests against President Trump have been blown out of proportion, while terrorist attacks did not receive similar coverage.
The bad blood between President Trump and the press has begun since his inauguration on Jan. 20. His criticism on Monday is the latest salvo against the press members which he claimed making a personal attack against him.
Watch the CNN report on President Trump accusation on media below:
