{"id":34427,"date":"2026-05-01T17:50:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/trump-criticizes-cnn-and-the-new-york-times-for-covering-the-war-with-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T17:51:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:51:06","slug":"trump-criticizes-cnn-and-the-new-york-times-for-covering-the-war-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/trump-criticizes-cnn-and-the-new-york-times-for-covering-the-war-with-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump criticizes CNN and the New York Times for covering the war with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/thumbs_b_c_b8b5832e4c578ef437df3cf1e39c2338-1.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump on Thursday sharply criticized The New York Times and CNN for their coverage of the US-Israeli war against Iran, describing CNN as &#8220;stupid&#8221; and claiming the newspaper&#8217;s reporting was &#8220;rebellious,&#8221; Anadolu reported.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he had &#8220;military beheaded&#8221; Iran, speaking to reporters at an Oval Office event where he signed an executive order aimed at expanding workers&#8217; access to retirement savings, while also criticizing Democrats&#8217; efforts to limit his war powers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And every day, I read how well they&#8217;re doing militarily. They&#8217;ve got nothing left, they&#8217;re done. And yet I read in The New York Times, I see on stupid CNN \u2014 which I only watch because you have to look at a little bit of the enemy,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also said that coverage from both media outlets implied that Iran was &#8220;winning the war,&#8221; criticizing their reporting on the war.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you read The New York Times \u2014 it&#8217;s really revolting, in my opinion,&#8221; he said, adding &#8220;Read some of these columnists, but it all starts at the top. It&#8217;s a terrible thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he didn&#8217;t &#8220;care and everybody knows the facts. We&#8217;re destroying the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the New York Times editorial board suggested that the US military is &#8220;losing its edge&#8221; in the Iran war, arguing that tactical gains have not translated into overall victory and could weaken Washington&#8217;s position.<\/p>\n<p>We use cookies to improve the experience and display ads (Google AdSense).<br \/>\n          By clicking &#8220;Accept&#8221;, you agree to the use of cookies according to<br \/>\n          Privacy Policy<br \/>\n          and<br \/>\n          Cookies Policy.<br \/>\n          You can reject non-necessary cookies by clicking &#8220;Reject&#8221;.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump on Thursday sharply criticized The New York Times and CNN for their coverage of the US-Israeli war against Iran, describing CNN as &#8220;stupid&#8221; and claiming the newspaper&#8217;s reporting was &#8220;rebellious,&#8221; Anadolu reported. Trump said he had &#8220;military beheaded&#8221; Iran, speaking to reporters at an Oval Office event where he signed an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-34427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brief"],"views":10,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34429,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34427\/revisions\/34429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}