Trump Savages News Media at Rally to Mark His 100th Day -
By MARK LANDLERAPRIL 29, 2017
HARRISBURG, Pa. — President Trump came to a farm expo center here on Saturday to celebrate his first 100 days in office by bathing in
the support of his bedrock supporters, reprising the populist themes of his campaign and savaging a familiar foe: the news media.
“Its creation as a permanent office within the White House sends an important signal to the world
that the United States will no longer tolerate trade cheating or allow our manufacturing and defense industrial base to wither and die,” the White House said in a statement.
In a rally timed to coincide with an annual dinner of the White House press corps in Washington, which he declined to attend, Mr. Trump laced into what he referred to as “the failing New York Times,” as well as CNN
and MSNBC, which he accused of incompetence and dishonesty.
“If the media’s job is to be honest and tell the truth, the media deserves a very, very
big fat failing grade,” he said, adding that they were “very dishonest people.”
Mr. Trump reveled in his decision to skip the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, describing a scene in which Hollywood stars
and reporters consoled themselves in a Washington hotel ballroom, while he mixed with a better class of people in the American heartland.
