(ZeroHedge)—Not thrilled with mainstream media coverage of U.S. strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities on Saturday, President Donald Trump on Monday erupted against some of the biggest names in American news.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump stated: “The sites that we hit in Iran were totally destroyed, and everyone knows it.
“Only the Fake News would say anything different in order to try and demean, as much as possible – And even they say they were ‘pretty well destroyed!’
“Working especially hard on this falsehood is Allison Cooper of Fake News CNN, Dumb Brian L. Roberts, Chairman of ‘Con’cast, Jonny Karl of ABC Fake News, and always, the Losers of, again, Concast’s NBC Fake News.
“It never ends with the sleazebags in the Media, and that’s why their Ratings are at an ALL TIME LOW — ZERO CREDIBILITY!”
Trump’s mention of “Allison” Cooper of CNN is actually a reference to Anderson Cooper, the openly homosexual anchor for the Cable News Network.
Trump first used the woman’s first name for Cooper last October in the days before the 2024 presidential election.
“If you watched her being interviewed by Allison Cooper the other night, he’s a nice person. You know Allison Cooper? CNN fake news,” Trump said in Traverse City, Michigan, according to the Associated Press, before pausing and saying in a mocking voice: “Oh, she said no, his name is Anderson. Oh, no.”
“They had a town hall,” Trump later said at another Michigan event. “Even Allison Cooper was embarrassed by it. He was embarrassed by it.”
The AP noted at the time: “In referring to Cooper with a woman’s name, Trump appeared to turn to a stereotype heterosexual people have long deployed against gay men. Such rhetoric evokes the trope of gay men as effeminate and comes as Trump aims to drive up his appeal among men in the final stages of his bid to return to the White House.”
As WorldNetDaily reported, CNN was forced to make a major correction to its story originally claiming Democrats in Congress were not informed in advance of the U.S. military strikes against Iran’s nuclear sites.
Appearing on Fox News Monday morning, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said congressional members of both parties were informed prior to the military action.
“First of all, we did make bipartisan calls. Thomas Massie and the Democrats – he should be a Democrat because he is more aligned with them than with the Republican Party – were given notice,” she began.
“The White House made calls to congressional leadership; they were bipartisan calls. In fact, Hakeem Jeffries couldn’t be reached. We tried him before the strike and he didn’t pick up the phone, but he was briefed after, as well as Chuck Schumer was briefed prior to the strike.
“So this notion that CNN ran with that the White House did not give a heads-up to Democrats is just completely false. In fact, both Sen. Schumer’s office and CNN had to retract that story last night because it was a blatant lie, and we showed them the time stamps from those phone calls.”
Brian Roberts, CEO of NBC News’ parent company Comcast, was an adviser to Barack Obama on the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, which “was created to provide non-partisan advice to the president on continuing to strengthen the nation’s economy and ensure the competitiveness of the United States and on ways to create jobs, opportunity, and prosperity for the American people.”
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