Donald Trump unveiled the winners of his much-touted "Fake News Awards"
Washington sources have reported that US President Donald Trump announced the winners of ‘Fake News Awards’ by escalating his already persistent attacks on a number of major US media outlets. Meanwhile the awards dropped hours after a senator from Trump's own Republican Party hurled a stinging rebuke at the president, accusing the US leader of undermining the free press with Stalinist language.
Meanwhile the "winners" of the spoof awards included top networks and newspapers CNN, The New York Times and The Washington Post, all of which have been regular targets of Trump's ire. Accordingly the Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman, who writes a regular opinion column for The New York Times, nabbed the number one spot.
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the administration said he merited the award for writing "on the day of
President Trump's historic, landslide victory that the economy would never
recover." Moreover the list also pointed to a reporting error from ABC's
veteran reporter Brian Ross, who was suspended for four weeks without pay after
he was forced to correct a bombshell report on ex-Trump aide Michael Flynn.