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Trump refused to take a question from the network’s chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta.
During a joint press conference on Friday with U.K. prime minister Theresa May, President Donald Trump refused to take a question from CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta in a testy exchange with a frequent adversary of his White House.
“I don’t take questions from CNN. CNN is fake news,” Trump said when Acosta called out for a question. The reporter had argued that CNN deserved to get a question because the president had criticized the network in response to a previous question from an NBC News reporter. (Trump had said that NBC News is “almost as bad” as CNN.)
Instead, Trump said, “Let’s go to a real network,” and took a question from Fox News White House correspondent John Roberts. (The president frequently calls on Roberts in press conferences.)
In response to that ding, Acosta countered, “Well, we’re a real network, too.”
The exchange was reminiscent of a spat between Trump and Acosta during a January 2017 press conference, when the then-president-elect refused to take a question from the reporter and called him “fake news.”
In January of this year, Trump told Acosta to “get out” of the White House during a pool spray.
During Friday’s press conference, Trump joked to May about whether the U.K also has “fake news” reporters.