From the day he descended the “golden escalator” and announced his presidential campaign in 2015, Donald Trump has been the victim of negative media coverage. Before announcing his presidential bid and revealing his positions on issues such as border security and illegal aliens, media outlets loved Donald Trump as a celebrity. He regularly received glowing media profiles and appeared on magazine covers.

However, once he became a “conservative” politician and started the “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) movement, Trump became the media’s number one enemy. For example, in the first 100 days of Trump’s second term, the mainstream media coverage of President Trump was 92 percent negative. In contrast, these so-called “objective” media outlets gave President Joe Biden 59 percent positive coverage during his first 100 days.

After suffering through years of this abusive media coverage, President Trump decided to strike back against his left-wing antagonists. On Friday, the President posted on Truth Social: “I am proud to announce that, effective immediately, I am banning Fake News CNN, MSNOW (which recently changed their name from MSNBC due to lack of viewership and credibility!), and Politico…from the White House.”

Trump claimed that Politico received an “illegal and ridiculous” $8 million payment “directly from the United States Government under Crooked Joe Biden…to keep them ‘alive.’ Seems like corruption to me!”

The President blasted all three media outlets for “constant ‘reporting’ FAKE NEWS!” He continued, noting that these press operations “shouldn’t be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES when they’re covering the President of the United States, the Trump Administration, or the United States of........

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