Following his fiery, anti-immigration speech, Donald Trump continued to make waves when moments ago, the presumptive candidate announced he is rescinding the Washington Post’s credentials to cover his campaign events. “Based on the incredibly inaccurate coverage and reporting of the record setting Trump campaign, we are hereby revoking the press credentials of the phony and dishonest Washington Post,” Trump posted on Facebook.
Based on the incredibly inaccurate coverage and reporting of the record setting Trump campaign, we are hereby: https://t.co/THKJwjNkaz
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 13, 2016
According to Politico, Trump had posted to Facebook nearly 20 minutes earlier “to show you how dishonest the phony Washington Post is.” “I am no fan of President Obama, but to show you how dishonest the phony Washington Post is, they wrote, ‘Donald Trump suggests President Obama was involved with Orlando shooting’ as their headline,” Trump said. “Sad!”
To be sure the animosity between the Jeff Bezos-owned WaPo and Trump is nothing new, but it has clearly escalated in this part of the news cycle, when after having been plagued by media coverage of his Judge Curiel comments (which has promptly disappeared from the newsflow), Trump felt a new bust of empowerment to reset the playing field according to his rules. That meant finally giving WaPo the boot on a day in which Trump felt confident enough his policies gave him enough cover for what others would promptly jump on as an attack on free speech, something Politico did when it defined Trump’s action as “his latest attack on the press.”
The article Trump appeared to be balking at came from a series of comments the candidate made on the morning news shows about Sunday’s mass shooting in Orlando that left 49 dead and at least 53 injured. “Trump seemed to repeatedly accuse President Obama on Monday of identifying with radicalized Muslims who have carried out terrorist attacks in the United States and being complicit in the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando over the weekend, the worst the country has ever seen,” the report begins.
“Look, we’re led by a man that either is not tough, not smart, or he’s got something else in mind. And the something else in mind — you know, people can’t believe it,” the Post quoted Trump as saying on Fox News Monday morning. “People cannot, they cannot believe that President Obama is acting the way he acts and can’t even mention the words ‘radical Islamic terrorism.’ There’s something going on. It’s inconceivable. There’s something going on.”
The WaPo in turn responded quickly: in a statement to Poynter, Washington Post Executive Editor Marty Baron had this to say:
Donald Trump’s decision to revoke The Washington Post’s press credentials is nothing less than a repudiation of the role of a free and independent press. When coverage doesn’t correspond to what the candidate wants it to be, then a news organization is banished. The Post will continue to cover Donald Trump as it has all along – honorably, honestly, accurately, energetically, and unflinchingly. We’re proud of our coverage, and we’re going to keep at it.
It was unclear if WaPo would also pull a Huffington Post relegate Trump to the comedy section.
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