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CNN, which made President Trump’s list of the top 10 fake news stories of 2017 four times, actually took the time to count exactly how many times Trump said the word “fake” in the past year.
According to CNN, Trump used the word “fake” to describe news networks, news stories, polls, and so on a total of 404 times in 2017.
That's just over double the number of times CNN staff and guests said "sh*thole" last Friday alone.
The number of "fake" occurrences were compiled from Trump’s speeches, interviews, and tweets.
CNN said the word “fake” has become a slur, which the network claims was transformed by Trump from “a term used by researchers and journalists to describe hoaxes that were designed to deceive people” to “a catch-all criticism for any news that Trump doesn't like.”
They called the word “fake” a “theme of his presidency” and argue that the word derides the news media as a whole, discouraging people from believing anything they read.
CNN is also the network that claimed after the presidential physician said Trump's health was "overall excellent" but has to regulate his cholesterol that he was at risk of having a heart attack within the next two to three years. Talk about spin.
President Trump and CNN have often come to blows. CNN’s Jim Acosta and White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders regularly engage in heated exchanges during press briefings. Trump has criticized the network's coverage of him as overwhelmingly negative.
A recent Media Research Center study found that 90 percent of news coverage about the Trump presidency was incessantly hostile.
Trump cited the study when he announced the winners of his 2017 Fake News Awards Wednesday night.
He tweeted that “despite some very corrupt and dishonest media coverage, there are many great reporters I respect and lots of GOOD NEWS for the American people to be proud of.”
A new Knight-Gallup survey finds that while most Americans view the news media as a key part of democracy, they don’t feel the media are living up to their role.
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