Trump postpones 'Fake news awards' to Jan 17

US President Donald Trump today postponed until January 17 his much-talked-about ‘fake news awards’ to be presented to the “most corrupt and biased” American mainstream media for its “dishonesty and bad reporting”.

The awards were supposed to be given today, but Trump upon his return from the Camp David presidential retreat yesterday tweeted about the new date for one-of its-kind awards to be given to the several media houses.

“The Fake News Awards, those going to the most corrupt & biased of the Mainstream Media, will be presented to the losers on Wednesday, January 17th, rather than this coming Monday,” he tweeted.

“The interest in, and importance of, these awards is far greater than anyone could have anticipated!” he said.

Trump has been at loggerheads with several US mainstream media outlets, including the CNN, ABC News, The New York Times and the Washington Post among others.He has quite often described these



popular media houses as “fake” media.The term is now popularly related to news with which one does not agree with.

On January 2, Trump had announced that he would give away the awards to media houses for “dishonesty and bad reporting”.“I will be announcing THE MOST DISHONEST & CORRUPT MEDIA AWARDS OF THE YEAR on Monday at 5:00 o’clock. This would be one of its kind media award by the US president. Subjects will cover Dishonesty & Bad Reporting in various categories from the Fake News Media. Stay tuned!” he had tweeted.

In November, he tweeted about a competition among news networks for the ‘Fake News Trophy’, excluding the Fox News.

“We should have a contest as to which of the Networks, plus CNN and not including Fox, is the most dishonest, corrupt and/or distorted in its political coverage of your favourite President (me). They are all bad. Winner to receive the FAKE NEWS TROPHY!,” he tweeted on November 27.