What 1st Amendment? Don’s press threat

President Trump on Wednesday suggested stripping the “credentials” of media outlets by citing a study that shows major-network evening-news coverage of his administration is mostly negative.

“The Fake News is working overtime. Just reported that, despite the tremendous success we are having with the economy & all things else, 91% of the Network News about me is negative (Fake),” the president tweeted.

“Why do we work so hard in working with the media when it is corrupt? Take away credentials?”

The White House Correspondents’ Association shot back, calling Trump’s comments an “assault on the First Amendment.”

“A free press must be able to report on the good, the bad, the momentous and the mundane, without fear or favor,” Margaret Talev, the group’s president, said via Twitter.

“And a president preventing a free and independent press from covering the workings of our republic would be an unconscionable assault on the First Amendment.”

Trump appeared to be referring to a study conducted by the conservative Media Research Center, which surveyed broadcast coverage of the president between Jan. 1 and April 30.

The group monitored 1,065 evening-news stories on CBS, ABC and NBC and said it determined that “90 percent of the evaluative comments about Trump were negative.”

The report claimed television coverage of possible Trump-campaign collusion with Russia received the lion’s share of the broadcasts, followed by the legal battle involving porn star Stormy Daniels.

The president consistently rails at the media as “fake news” and the “enemy of the people” while calling journalists “dishonest people.”