President Donald Trump on Sunday known as for “most fines and punishment” towards CBS and its company father or mother, Paramount, over Sunday night time’s “60 Minutes” broadcast.
In two separate posts on his Reality Social web site, Trump complained in regards to the present’s interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris final yr ― which he’s suing the corporate over ― and railed against Sunday night time’s experiences on Greenland and the warfare in Ukraine.
“They aren’t a ‘Information Present,’ however a dishonest Political Operative merely disguised as ‘Information,’ and should be liable for what they’ve carried out, and are doing,” the president wrote. “They need to lose their license!”
He urged FCC Chair Brendan Carr, who was named to the place by Trump, to ship “substantial” penalties to the community for what he known as “illegal and unlawful conduct.”
“CBS is uncontrolled, at ranges by no means seen earlier than, and they need to pay an enormous worth for this,” he wrote.
The Ukraine segment featured an interview with the nation’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, by correspondent Scott Pelley. Pelley famous that Trump promised to finish the warfare in Ukraine “instantly” and earlier than even taking workplace, which didn’t occur.
Pelley requested Zelenskyy about Trump’s false declare that Ukraine started the warfare, and that Zelenskyy is a “dictator.”
“I consider, sadly, Russian narratives are prevailing within the U.S.,” Zelenskyy stated.
The other segment that triggered Trump concerned Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory that the president insisted ought to develop into a part of the US.
However on “60 Minutes,” Greenlanders gave Trump a fairly frosty reception.
Aqqaluk Lynge, an Inuit elder statesman, stated Trump’s joint deal with earlier than Congress, saying the U.S. would get Greenland “one way or the other,” was “ugly.”
“All of us observed that in Greenland,” Lynge stated. “All of us.”
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