(Cupventi.com) – In a recent appearance on “Fox & Friends Weekend,” former President Donald Trump expressed deep concerns over what he described as the erosion of public trust in the media, pointing specifically to “60 Minutes” and major news outlets like The Washington Post. During the interview, Trump responded to criticisms directed at him for recent comments about former Representative Liz Cheney, sparking fresh debates over media credibility and political discourse.
Trump accused “60 Minutes” of selectively editing a recent interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, suggesting that CBS manipulated the footage to distort Harris’s responses. “They don’t have credibility anymore,” Trump claimed about The Washington Post, emphasizing his belief that traditional news outlets have lost the public’s confidence. “The media has to have credibility, and the media doesn’t have any credibility,” he reiterated. While CBS News has denied these allegations, the network has declined to release the full interview transcript, citing First Amendment protections. CBS maintained that the program did not alter Harris’s answers, insisting, “The interview was not doctored” and that “the program did not hide any part of the vice president’s answer to the question at issue.”
Feels like I’m living in an alternate reality from mainstream media
— litquidity (@litcapital) November 1, 2024
Just saw headlines about Trump’s comments about Liz Cheney being shot and thought “damn that’s bad, wtf did he say now”
So I went and found the actual clip to get the context (attached). Trump effectively… pic.twitter.com/DTuTGLHeT3
In the same interview, Trump addressed his recent remarks about Liz Cheney, which had garnered widespread criticism. Trump had previously referred to Cheney as “a very dumb individual” and “a radical war hawk” during an event in Glendale, Arizona. Trump elaborated on his position on Fox, saying, “She wanted to go to war with anyone that moves and lose a lot of people, lose a lot of soldiers. Put the nation in trouble.”
At the Arizona event, Trump directed particularly pointed remarks toward Cheney, even suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which she would face the reality of war herself. “Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face,” he said, sharply criticizing Cheney’s foreign policy stance. He added, “They’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in the nice buildings saying, ‘Oh gee well, let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.’”
Cheney swiftly responded to Trump’s statements. In a post on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, she characterized Trump’s comments as a sign of authoritarian tendencies, writing, “This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with death. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant.”
With only days left before the 2024 presidential election, Trump used the Fox interview to deliver a final appeal to voters, touching on his core campaign issues: the economy and immigration. He attributed his decision to seek the presidency again to what he sees as America’s declining status, citing high inflation rates, economic challenges, and what he described as a border crisis. “This is a nation in decline,” Trump stated. “We can turn it around, but we have to get out and vote.”
As the 2024 election draws near, Trump’s critique of media institutions and opposition to figures like Cheney highlight the deepening divides in American political life. His words, and Cheney’s strong rebuke, underscore the tensions between competing visions for the nation’s future and the role of the media in shaping public perception.