Donald Trump’s attacks on the press, one of his constants since he came into politics in 2015, now have a new form: The White House has created an official website to flag journalists And the media, which he accuses of lying, … From “fake news”.
The Trump administration sold it as “general database” Which is hosted on the White House website and will be “Flamethrower against fake news journalism”.
According to the release statement, it will chronicle “the torrent of lies, deliberate distortions, and fabricated deceptions propagated by activist journalists and their degenerate media.”
At the opening of the platform, those featured as “Criminals of the Week” were the Boston Globe, one of the most prestigious newspapers in the United States; CBS News, a major news network and “The Independent”, a British online media outlet.
The reason for this honor is information related to one of the most important issues at the moment in the Trump administration: LThe attacks were launched by the US military on ships it accuses of transporting drugsThe legitimacy of which many question. Last week, a group of Democratic lawmakers called on the military to reject “unlawful orders.” now, The White House website that decides what is or is not a journalistic crimeHe accuses these media of not proving that Trump did not issue any illegal order.
The site also includes “Hall of Shame,” a play on words with “Hall of Fame,” which is the English name for the honorary list. It shows many Major American media outlets that Trump considers enemies: The Washington Post, the New York Times, or CNN. It is also conservative in nature, but does not avoid critical coverage of Trump, such as the Wall Street Journal.
The creation of the site is just another episode in Trump’s war against the press, which he has spent years trying to delegitimize any information that is not positive for him.
Since his campaign began in 2015, Trump has had a love-hate relationship with the press. He is an avid reader and viewer. He does not underestimate the influence of the press in establishing the narrative around his personality and tries to control it.
Since his first term, he has spread the idea of “fake news” in everything that harms him. He described the press as “the enemy of the people.” He forced his followers to boo reporters at his rallies.
After his re-election, that battle intensified, in an open attempt by Trump to pressure the press to keep it under control. He has filed a lawsuit against the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, seeking millions of dollars in damages over their reporting on Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. He has demanded multi-billion-dollar damages from the BBC for the concerned version of his speech before the attack on the Capitol in January 2021. He has extracted multi-million-dollar extrajudicial settlements from ABC and CBS. He campaigned against the presenters of late-night political satire television shows (apparently successful, as one show was canceled and another temporarily suspended). He kicked the Associated Press, one of the nation’s major media outlets, out of the White House. In recent days, amid a torrent of scandals, he has intensified his insults to journalists. Especially women reporters. “Shut up you little pig”, “You are stupid”, “You are a terrible person and a journalist”, “You are ugly, inside and out”, were some of those attacks.