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Trump brands media outlets critical of him as 'illegal', 'corrupt'

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  • 15 Mar 2025 00:18
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Trump has adopted an aggressive stance toward media outlets that criticize him, hurling accusations reminiscent of his first presidency.

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  • President Donald Trump speaks at the Justice Department in Washington, Friday, March 14, 2025 (AP)President Donald Trump speaks at the Justice Department in Washington, Friday, March 14, 2025 (AP)

US President Donald Trump branded news outlets that cover him critically as "illegal" and "corrupt" during a speech on Friday.

Speaking at the Department of Justice, Trump said CNN, MSNBC, and other unspecified media outlets "literally write 97.6 percent bad about me," adding, "It has to stop. It has to be illegal."

Trump described those media outlets as "political arms of the Democrat party. And in my opinion they're really corrupt and they're illegal. What they do is illegal," emphasizing that the news outlets are "influencing judges and it's really changing law, and it just cannot be legal. I don't believe it's legal. And they do it in total coordination with each other."

The US president has repeatedly attacked the media since his first election to the presidency in 2016, calling journalists and media outlets he disapproves of as "fake news" and "enemies of the people," while his current presidency is marked by targeting mainstream media outlets with restrictions.

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An Associated Press photographer and journalists from Reuters, HuffPost, and the German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel were denied entry to Trump’s first cabinet meeting on February 27, while TV crews from ABC and Newsmax, along with correspondents from Axios, The Blaze, Bloomberg News, and NPR, were allowed to cover the event.

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In response, the three wire services that have traditionally held permanent spots in the White House press pool—AP, Bloomberg, and Reuters—stated on February 27, emphasizing their longstanding role in providing accurate, fair, and timely coverage of the presidency to a diverse audience across the US and worldwide.

"Much of the White House coverage people see in their local news outlets, wherever they are in the world, comes from the wires," the organizations noted.  

"It is essential in a democracy for the public to have access to news about their government from an independent, free press," the statement added.

Meanwhile, HuffPost criticized the White House’s decision, calling it a violation of the First Amendment’s guarantee of press freedom.  

On February 25, the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) also issued a statement opposing the new policy.  

The move comes after the Trump administration barred the Associated Press from the press pool for refusing to adopt the name "Gulf of America"—a term Trump assigned to the Gulf of Mexico—or update its widely used stylebook accordingly.  

AP, one of the world’s oldest news agencies, in turn, filed a lawsuit against three senior White House officials, accusing them of restricting press access in retaliation for its editorial decisions.

The complaint, submitted Friday to the US District Court in Washington, D.C., alleges that AP journalists were barred from covering presidential events at the White House and Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and from traveling aboard Air Force One.

"The press and all people in the United States have the right to choose their own words and not be retaliated against by the government," AP stated in its lawsuit, which names White House Chief of Staff Susan Wiles, Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich, and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt as defendants.

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