Trump criticizes media as he marks African American History Month

Trump criticizes media as He marks African American History Month

President Trump jump started on the media Wednesday amid an occasion held to check Black History Month, calling CNN "fake news" and at the end of the day denouncing a false report that he had expelled a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. from the Oval Office.

Trump's comments came at the highest point of what was charged as a "listening session" at which he sat at a meeting table in the Roosevelt Room with a gathering of African Americans, the vast majority of whom had assumed a part in his crusade for president or took a shot at the move.

Trump soon swung to a false report by a Time magazine author that on his Inauguration Day a bust of King had been expelled from the Oval Office. Trump and his associates have more than once refered to the occurrence as confirmation of media predisposition, regardless of a quick affirmation of the blunder and a statement of regret from the columnist.

"Somebody said I took the statue out of my office," Trump said. "And it turned out that that was fake news. Fake news. The statue is cherished. … It was never even touched, so I think it was a disgrace, but that’s the way the press is. Very unfortunate."

Trump later said that he didn't watch CNN, calling the system "fake news." By complexity, he stated, "Fox has treated me very nice."

Trump likewise rehashed a before appraisal, first made by White House strategist Stephen K. Bannon, that the media is "the resistance party."

"A lot of the media actually is the opposition party," the president said. "They're so one-sided, and truly it's a disrespect. A portion of the media is phenomenal and reasonable, however such a large amount of the media is resistance party, intentionally saying off base things."

Trump noted he had won the decision, recommending that that was confirmation the media may not "have the impact they think."

"But they really need to straighten out their act," Trump said. "They’re very dishonest people."

Amid the occasion, Trump additionally expressed gratitude toward those around the table for helping him surpass his desires with African American voters.

"If you remember, I wasn’t going to do well with the African American community," Trump said. "We ended up getting substantially more than candidates who had run in the past years, and now we’re going to take that to new levels."

Leave surveys demonstrated Democratic chosen one Hillary Clinton overwhelmingly won African American votes over Trump, 89 percent to 8 percent. In 2012, leave surveys demonstrated that then-President Barack Obama earned 93 percent of the dark vote contrasted and Republican chosen one Mitt Romney's 6 percent.

Trump abundantly expressed gratitude toward Ben Carson, his pick to run the Department of Housing and Urban Development, for his assistance amid the crusade.

"I’d go around with Ben to a lot of different places I wasn’t so familiar with," Trump said.

Trump likewise put in a fitting for the new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, ticking off some of those respected there.

Among those he specified was Frederick Douglass, an abolitionist and previous slave who kicked the bucket in 1895. Trump refered to Douglass as "a case of some individual who's made an astonishing showing with regards to and is being perceived to an ever increasing extent, I take note."

"Big impact," Trump said of those included in the exhibition hall.

"I’m proud to honor this heritage and will be honoring it more and more," Trump said.