CNN’s Brian Stelter on Trump Ripping the Media While Praising Coast Guard: ‘Just Wrong and Petty’

During his visit to hurricane-ravaged areas of Texas and Louisiana yesterday, President Donald Trump took the opportunity to ding the media while offering up some praise to the Coast Guard for rescuing thousands from flooded areas.

“I hear the Coast Guard saved…almost 11,000 people by going into winds the media would not go into,” Trump stated. “They will not go into those winds unless it’s a really good story, in which case they will.”

CNN senior media correspondent Brian Stelter highlighted the president’s remarks on today’s broadcast of Reliable Sources, noting it was a “really strange comment” before playing it for the audience.

“It’s just wrong and petty,” Stelter stated. “Obviously, we saw many members of the media, out with the Coast Guard, out with other rescuers.”

He added, “Obviously, many members of the media were out in the winds and out in the flooding afterwards. The president just couldn’t resist that slap at the press.”

Stelter then turned to veteran journalist Will Bunch to discuss the president’s comments, with Bunch saying that it was “pathological” and is part of the president’s effort of to hold his base together amid falling poll numbers.

Watch the clip above, via CNN.

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