Episode description

On April 26th 2020 at the height of the COVID19 pandemic the president took time to attack journalists who he believes should be reprimanded for reporting the Russiagate investigation, which resulted in just 34 persons being charged and seven Trump associates being imprisoned. 

Trump tweeted of the journalists: “I can give the Committee a very comprehensive list. When will the Noble Committee DEMAND the Prizes back, especially since they were gotten under fraud? The reporters and Lamestream Media knew the truth all along ... Lawsuits should be brought against all, including the Fake News Organizations, to rectify this terrible injustice. For all of the great lawyers out there, do we have any takers? When will the Noble Committee Act? Better be fast!”

Trump appears to have mixed up the Pulitzer prize with the Nobel prize, which he incorrectly spelled four times as Noble and later tweeted that he was being sarcastic.

Again. 

Donald Trump threatened to strip reporters of “Noble prizes” and sue news outlets over their reporting that confirmed Russian interference in 2016 US elections.

It must be noted that the president of any country has no power to strip Nobel prizes. 

The president said that reporters who covered the Russian interference scandal should return their “Nobles” to “the REAL REPORTERS & JOURNALISTS who got it right.”

He mentioned no names.

He said: “I read a phony story in the failing @nytimes about my work ... schedule and eating habits, written by a third rate reporter who knows nothing about me.I will often be in the Oval Office late into the night & see that I am angrily eating a hamberger & Diet Coke in my bedroom. People with me are always stunned. Anything to demean!”

He misspelled hamburger, deleted the tweet, then reposted it.

The New York Times has reported that he ends his day with French fries and a Diet Coke. But never a misspelled hamburger. 

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