White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders was asked about a tweet president Trump sent earlier in the week at the White House press briefing Friday.
In the tweet, the president said “The Fake News is working overtime,” and cited a study that found 91 percent of broadcast news about the administration is negative.
“Why do we work so hard in working with the media when it is corrupt?” Trump said, “Take away credentials?”
The Fake News is working overtime. Just reported that, despite the tremendous success we are having with the economy & all things else, 91% of the Network News about me is negative (Fake). Why do we work so hard in working with the media when it is corrupt? Take away credentials?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 9, 2018
The report from Media Research Center states:
The Media Research Center studied all broadcast evening news coverage of the President from January 1 through April 30, and found 90 percent of the evaluative comments about Trump were negative — precisely the same hostile tone we documented in 2017.
But unlike last year, when the RealClearPolitics average depicted a slow but steady erosion in the President’s job approval numbers, the public has apparently warmed to Trump in 2018, even as the networks are as frosty as ever.
A reporter asked Sarah Sanders if “all negative stories about the president are fake?”
Sanders had a one word answer, “No.”
Then she moved on.
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