The beef between CNN and Donald Trump continues through the holiday season.
Just days after the president criticized CNN on Twitter, the network announced it would not attend this year’s White House holiday party for media outlets. A spokesperson said the decision was based on Trump’s frequent attacks on the press.
“CNN will not be attending this year's White House Christmas party,” a CNN spokesperson told Politico. “In light of the President's continued attacks on freedom of the press and CNN, we do not feel it is appropriate to celebrate with him as his invited guests. We will send a White House reporting team to the event and report on it if news warrants.”
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders seemed happy about the boycott.
This past weekend, Trump called CNN a source of fake news and compared it unfavorably to its conservative competitor Fox News.
He doubled down on that statement a couple days later, claiming Fox News was the only network that was honest and free of corruption.
