Trump proposes a government-run TV news network to counter CNN

Enlarge / President Donald Trump gets into an exchange with CNN reporter Jim Acosta during a news conference a day after the midterm elections on November 7, 2018. (credit: Getty Images News)

President Donald Trump yesterday proposed creating a government-run TV network that would broadcast globally to show the world how great America is.

Trump pitched the state-run network as an alternative to CNN. "Throughout the world, CNN has a powerful voice portraying the United States in an unfair and false way," Trump wrote on Twitter. "Something has to be done, including the possibility of the United States starting our own Worldwide Network to show the World the way we really are, GREAT!"

....and false way. Something has to be done, including the possibility of the United States starting our own Worldwide Network to show the World the way we really are, GREAT!

- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 26, 2018

Law professor Richard Painter, who was the chief White House ethics counsel in the Bush administration from 2005 to 2007, tweeted that Trump's proposed network sounds "Just like Pravda, the Reich Propaganda Ministry and other fine examples of state-run media."

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