President Donald Trump renewed his criticism of CNN as “fake news” on Tuesday, following the resignation of three network staffers for a retracted story that attempted to link the president’s associates to Russia.
“Wow, CNN had to retract big story on ‘Russia,’ with 3 employees forced to resign,” Trump tweeted. “What about all the other phony stories they do? FAKE NEWS!”
The president capped follows social media response with a retweet of a meme that rejiggered the news network’s logo as FNN, for “Fake News Network.”
He followed by repeating unconfirmed reports of management changes that might be imminent at the network, and then broadened his criticism to include other mainstream media outlets.