President Trump announces the 2017 Fake News Awards!

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Thu, 18 Jan 2018 10:56 UTC

It was the moment we have all been waiting for...

President Trump announced his first Fake News Awards on Wednesday night with a tweet on the 2017 award winners.

The webpage of the winner list (here) could not load for the longest time. Fox News Tucker Carlson interrupted his segment to announce the results...

Without further ado, here are the winners (who are in actuality losers) of the Fake News Awards for 2017...

Via The Gateway Pundit...

The president listed about 12 stories as winning the Fake News Awards for 2017.

2017 was a year of unrelenting bias, unfair news coverage, and even downright fake news. Studies have shown that over 90% of the media's coverage of President Trump is negative.

Below are the winners of the 2017 Fake News Awards...

1. The New York Times' Paul Krugman claimed on the day of President Trump's historic, landslide victory that the economy would never recover.

2. ABC News' Brian Ross CHOKES and sends markets in a downward spiral with false report.

3. CNN FALSELY reported that candidate Donald Trump and his son Donald J. Trump, Jr. had access to hacked documents from WikiLeaks.

4. TIME FALSELY reported that President Trump removed a bust of Martin Luther King, Jr. from the Oval Office.

5. Washington Post FALSELY reported the President's massive sold-out rally in Pensacola, Florida was empty. Dishonest reporter showed picture of empty arena HOURS before crowd started pouring in.

6. CNN FALSELY edited a video to make it appear President Trump defiantly overfed fish during a visit with the Japanese prime minister. Japanese prime minister actually led the way with the feeding.

7. CNN FALSELY reported about Anthony Scaramucci's meeting with a Russian, but retracted it due to a "significant breakdown in process."

8. Newsweek FALSELY reported that Polish First Lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda did not shake President Trump's hand.

9. CNN FALSELY reported that former FBI Director James Comey would dispute President Trump's claim that he was told he is not under investigation.

10. The New York Times FALSELY claimed on the front page that the Trump administration had hidden a climate report.

11. And last, but not least: "RUSSIA COLLUSION!" Russian collusion is perhaps the greatest hoax perpetrated on the American people. THERE IS NO COLLUSION!

Comment: See also:

• 2017 - The year of fake news - Some of the worst media fabrications, including Trump and Russia bashing (VIDEO)
• Fake news & plagiarism prove US mainstream media has failed
• Are Trump's 'Fake News Awards' persuasive?
• Republicans criticize, condemn Trump's 'fake news awards' as fodder for comedians

RT also reported on the event:

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Trump also tweeted that there are "great reporters" whom he respects. He did not name any of those journalists, though, unlike the treatment dished out to the "Fake News" awardees.

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The New York Times was quick to point out their inclusion on Trump's award list while tweeting out a link to one of their articles recapping the president's online event.

New York Times reporter Dan Barry jokingly tweeted, after Trump named the winners, that a party would follow the president's announcements.

The Washington Post, which took fifth place in Trump's awards for reporter Dave Weigel tweeting false information about the size of Trump's crowd at a rally last month, ran an article that posed the question: "Does it really count if the news organization admits error?"

Multiple mainstream outlets preemptively blasted Trump's plan for the fake news awards. A headline from Politico on Wednesday said Trump had "little to gain" from them. Meanwhile, the Washington Post predicted the awards would be "a huge flop."ABC News stated that under Trump, "fake news" has gone from an easy applause line to a license to create entirely new realities.