12 of the Top Trump Jabs at the Media in His Marathon Press Conference

1. During his prepared remarks, Trump denounced the media that largely reside in Los Angeles, New York, and Washington D.C. but claim to represent the rest of the country. However, the President admitted that this is anything but the truth:

Unfortunately, much of the media in Washington, D.C., along with New York, Los Angeles in particular, speaks not for the people, but for the special interests and for those profiting off a very, very obviously broken system. The press has become so dishonest that if we don’t talk about, we are doing a tremendous disservice to the American people. Tremendous disservice. We have to talk to find out what’s going on, because the press honestly is out of control. The level of dishonesty is out of control.

2. Trump offered this aside about recent coverage in The New York Times concerning allegations his campaign team were in contact with Russian officials: “The failing New York Times wrote a big, long front-page story yesterday. And it was very much discredited, as you know. It was — it’s a joke.”

3. Trump admitted that he “enjoy[s] this back and forth that I guess I have all my life” with the media, but also realized that he’s “never seen more dishonest media than frankly, the political media.”

4. In the first of multiple punches lobbed at CNN, Trump denounced the “anger and hatred” coming out of the network. With Jim Acosta begging to respond, Trump told him to calm down, reminding the media that many Americans view them less favorably than even Congress:

I mean, I watch CNN, it’s so much anger and hatred and just the hatred. I don’t watch it any more because it’s very good — he’s saying no. It’s okay, Jim — it’s okay, Jim — you’ll have your chance. But I watch others too. You’re not the only one so don’t feel badly. But I think it should be straight. I think it should be — I think it would be frankly more interesting. I know how good everybody’s ratings are right now but I think that actually — I think that’d actually be better. People — I mean, you have a lower approval rate than Congress. I think that’s right.

5. Trump finally allowed Acosta to have his turn and the CNN correspondent wanted to try and clear the air. However, Trump wasn’t having it:

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