Media Twitter Has Field Day With Trump After ‘FAKE NEWS TROPHY’ Tweet

You are never going to believe this. President Donald Trump placed finger to phone this morning and tweeted out something inane, proposing that he hold a “contest” to determine “the most dishonest, corrupt and/or distorted in its political coverage” of “your favorite president (me).”

He excluded Fox News from this contest because, well, of course he did. The rest of the networks? “They are all bad,” the leader of the free world (him) wrote, bloviating blindly into his social media echo chamber.

So, as one could imagine, actual members of the media were dumbfounded by the president’s latest display of, uh, whatever this is. Fear? Distraction? A colicky morning? Who the heck knows anymore. Here are some tweets from the fake news media’s best and brightest, all vying for that trophy.

 

Sometimes you read a @POTUS tweet and you think, “This can’t possibly be for real.” And then you look again, and it is.

— Joe Nocera (@NoceraBV) November 27, 2017

We should have a contest where the Networks face off against each other with exotic creatures they’ve discovered in the wild, trained in special gyms and store inside a spherical device, which I call a Poké Ball

— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) November 27, 2017

You ok?

— Vaughn Sterling (@vplus) November 27, 2017

… in the shape of my tiny hands.

— Dan Howdle (@DanHowdle) November 27, 2017

The parenthetical here is amazing https://t.co/rVT6uucuAH

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) November 27, 2017

He doesn’t drink! https://t.co/ma26WoMYeZ

— Justin Miller (@justinjm1) November 27, 2017

Grow up. https://t.co/wkHyvu3xcg

— Emily C. Singer (@CahnEmily) November 27, 2017

Wot

— luke o’neil (@lukeoneil47) November 27, 2017

as someone who works in media (and does not work for Fox News) I feel absolutely owned by our brain genius president https://t.co/slZ8JETvqv

— Caleb Ecarma (@calebecarma) November 27, 2017

I believe this is an actual Fake News Trophy pic.twitter.com/TVAPgj5PIf

— Alex Parker (@AlexParker) November 27, 2017

there’s probably a joke somewhere about how benny johnson is the fake news trophy but I don’t feel like finding it

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) November 27, 2017

Fake News Trophy aka the Pulitzers amirite????

— Jason Abbruzzese (@JasonAbbruzzese) November 27, 2017

This is like an SAT question. https://t.co/cMAIVpoMsp

— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) November 27, 2017

special cyber monday deal: 40% off your own fake news trophy

— Jared Rizzi (@JaredRizzi) November 27, 2017

Trump went on to single out MSNBC’s Morning Joe specifically in a subsequent tweet, saying “their ratings are terrible, nobody cares!” It is also worth noting that the president is rapidly approaching an astounding 37,000 tweets and golfs more than Bob Hope on a USO tour.

“May you live in interesting times” said some bozo who probably didn’t.

[image via screenshot]

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