Trump tweets a bizarre video of him knocking down ‘CNN’
In the 28-second video, Trump is seen knocking down another man who is standing next to a wrestling ring. Trump then pummels the man, whose face is covered by the CNN logo, repeatedly over the head.
US President Donald Trump launched a fresh attack on the news media on Sunday by tweeting a video — bizarre even by his standards — showing him knocking down and beating a professional wrestling “villain” whose face had been replaced by a CNN logo.
The 10-year-old video, hailing back to Mr Trump’s days as a guest celebrity at pro-wrestling events, came after a week in which his unrestrained Twitter attacks on two MSNBC talk show hosts drew widespread condemnation from members
of both political parties.
In the 28-second video, Mr Trump, dressed in a suit, is seen knocking down another man in a suit who is standing next to a wrestling ring.
Trump then pummels the man, whose face is covered by the CNN logo, repeatedly over the head. At the end of the video, a fake CNN logo appears in the lower right corner of the screen with the words “FNN: Fraud News Network.”
A longer version of the same video found online shows that the man knocked down was World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) owner-promoter Vince McMahon, a friend of Mr Trump’s.
Washington, July 2: President Donald Trump vowed to support and defend religious liberty, telling a gathering of evangelical Christians that the threat of terrorism is “one of the most grave and dire threats to religious freedom in the world today.”
“We cannot allow this terrorism and extremism to spread in our country, or to find sanctuary on our shores or in our cities,” Mr Trump said last night at a “Celebrate Freedom” concert honouring veterans. “We want to make sure that anyone who seeks to join our country shares our values and has the capacity to love our people.”
First Baptist Dallas and Salem Media Group sponsored the event at the John F. Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts. First Baptist Pastor Robert Jeffress was a strong backer of Trump during the 2016 campaign.
The event at times felt like one of Mr Trump's signature campaign rallies, with the President promising an adoring crowd that America would “win again” and prompting cheers with attacks on the news media. “The fake media tried to stop us from going to the White House, but I’m President and they’re not,” he said.
On Saturday, Mr Trump defended his aggressive use of Twitter just hours after firing off his latest volley in his escalating feud with US media.
Following an early morning Twitter tirade at CNN, NBC and a morning show host he taunted as “dumb as a rock,” the President then went on the defensive, touting his electoral accomplishments as justification for his increasingly hostile rhetoric.
“The FAKE & FRAUDULENT NEWS MEDIA is working hard to convince Republicans and others I should not use social media, I won the 2016 election with interviews, speeches and social media,” Mr Trump said on Twitter.