Trump Tweets a Video of Him Wrestling ‘CNN’ to the Ground<br />But Mr. Trump has ratcheted up his attacks on the news media in recent days — assailing CNN<br />and crudely insulting the hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” — while defending his use of social media as “modern day presidential.”<br />In a speech on Saturday at a faith rally in Washington, Mr. Trump was met with cheers when he referred to CNN as “garbage journalism”<br />and said: “The fake media tried to stop us from going to the White House.<br />“Targeting individual journalists or media outlets, on- or off-line, creates a chilling effect and fosters an environment where further harassment, or even physical attack, is deemed acceptable,” Courtney Radsch, the advocacy director for the Committee to Protect Journalists, wrote in a statement on Sunday, adding<br />that Mr. Trump’s comments may embolden “autocratic leaders around the world.”<br />Mr. Trump, who is spending part of the weekend at his Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N. J., posted<br />the wrestling tweet just as prominent Republicans began appearing on the major Sunday news programs.<br />On Saturday, hours before posting the wrestling video, Mr. Trump tweeted to his 33 million<br />followers, “I am thinking about changing the name #FakeNews CNN to #FraudNewsCNN!”<br />On Sunday, CNN issued its response.<br />“Your program — a program with the incredible history of ‘Meet the Press’ — and that’s what you want to talk about?”<br />Some White House aides said privately on Sunday that the president was being held to a double standard.<br />On CNN, Senator Ben Sasse, a Nebraska Republican and frequent Trump critic, accused the president of “weaponizing distrust” toward the news media.
