President Trump has not been shy about voicing his displeasure leading news organizations he feels were either against him during last fall’s presidential election or covered the first few months of his second term unfairly.
He’s also used the power that comes with the White House as leverage in his battles, including keeping one outlet out of the White House travel pool. Trump has done all of this while becoming a fixture in media, with near daily appearances from the White House and other locations.
Here are five media outlets that have landed in Trump’s crosshairs during his first 100 days.
CBS
Trump is suing CBS News and its parent company Paramount Global over an interview with then Vice President Kamala Harris the network published as part of 60 Minutes broadcast just days before the election.
Trump alleges the program intentionally edited the Harris interview to cast her in a positive light, a claim that his FCC chair Brendan Carr has indicated he believes could constitute a legitimate “news distortion” complaint.
Executives at Paramount have signaled an eagerness to settle as the company looks to secure a mega merger with moviemaker Skydance that will need the administration’s regulatory approval.
60 Minutes throughout the legal drama has maintained aggressive coverage of the Trump administration, including a segment on Sunday featuring attorneys and law firms the president has targeted with executive orders.
If Paramount ultimately settles with Trump out of court, the episode would serve as a major victory for the president in his war on the media, roil staffers inside CBS News and serve as a capitulation to executive power by one of the largest media conglomerates in the country at what many see as the expense of its premier news program.
NPR
Public broadcasters like NPR and PBS have long faced attacks from Republicans and allies of Trump, but in his second term the scrutiny they’ve faced has reached a seemingly all-time high.
Trump issued an executive order last week calling for the defunding of NPR and its member stations, citing what the administration calls NPR’s failure to “present a fair, accurate, or unbiased portrayal of current events to tax paying citizens.”
Meanwhile, a push to defund NPR has gained steam in Congress, with its CEO Katherine Maher facing an intense grilling from Republican lawmakers during a hearing last month over the public media company’s editorial decision making.
Defenders of NPR and public broadcasters argue that stripping federal funds from the outlet and its member stations could have devastating impacts on local communities, particularly rural areas where they say there is a dearth of local news reporting.
Trump nonetheless says he is determined to take taxpayer dollars out of NPR’s budget, and has used his bully pulpit to place direct pressure on lawmakers appropriating funds to the broadcaster each year.
AP
When Trump announced he was renaming the “Gulf of Mexico” to “Gulf of America,” the Associated Press said it would not update its stylebook to reflect the change.
That decision led the White House to ban the AP from the White House Press Pool, a body the West Wing took complete control of days later.
The AP sued the White House over the decision and won, but Trump has not backed down from his repeated attacks on the wire service, which he has characterized as partisan and against him.
The AP, Trump said during an event in late February, “has been very, very wrong on the election on Trump and the treatment of Trump and other things having to do with Trump and Republicans and conservatives.”
“And they’re doing us no favors,” he added. “And I guess I’m doing them no favors. That’s the way life works.”
The Atlantic
Journalist Jeffery Goldberg, The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, landed arguably the biggest scoop of Trump’s first 100 days when he was mistakenly added to a group chat with a number of top intelligence and defense officials.
The chat included a discussions about plans for an attack in Yemen, including information on military strikes that appeared to be sensitive.
“Singal-gate,” as it became known, served the latest dose of fuel in Trump’s long-held disdain for The Atlantic, with the president and his allies working overtime to discredit Goldberg’s reporting in the days after his bombshell story was published.
“I don’t know anything about it. I’m not a big fan of The Atlantic; to me it’s a magazine that is going out of business,” Trump said last month when asked about the reporting.
During his first term, Trump was enraged by a story published in The Atlantic that alleged he had referred to 2,200 U.S. soldiers who fought and died in World War I as “suckers” and “losers” before a visit to a French cemetery where they are buried, which he denied.
As he has with other media enemies, Trump has shown a willingness to grant access to outlets he has been sharply critical of.
The president late last month sat for a wide-ranging interview with Goldberg and other journalists from The Atlantic, which sparked headlines with quotes from Trump saying he now “runs the world.”
The Wall Street Journal
Perhaps more than any other right of center national publication, the Wall Street Journal has been loudly pushing back on Trump’s policies, particularly on trade and the economy.
Trump over the weekend refused to answer a question from a Journal reporter aboard Air Force One, calling the outlet he worked for a “rotten newspaper.”
“The Wall Street Journal is China-oriented,” the president said. “And they’re really bad for this country.”
Those comments echoed criticisms Trump has for years leveled against Rupert Murdoch, the Journal’s billionaire owner and a business executive the president has called a “globalist” trying to “tear me down.”
The Journal contends its frequently Trump-critical opinion pages operate separately from its newsroom, which this week won a Pulitzer Prize for extensive reporting on Trump ally Elon Musk’s personal and private life.
But Trump has made it clear he sees the Journal’s coverage of and commentary on him as a reflection of Murdoch’s views on the decisions he is making.
“I’ve been right over The Wall Street Journal a number of times,” Trump said just days into his second term as he hosted Murdoch in the Oval Office. “I don’t agree with him on some things.”
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