The White House has launched a new section on its website dedicated to calling out media it considers misleading or having a bias in its coverage of President Trump and his policies.
At the top of the site it says, “Misleading. Biased. Exposed.”
It lists the “media offender” of the week, which will seemingly be updated. When users scroll down, it names the outlet, the reporter, the offense, the claim the article makes, what “the truth is” and what the key points of the issue are, among other things.
There is an “offender hall of shame” and users can search for a specific headline, or scroll through specific outlets and reporters.
It also features a “leaderboard” characterized as a “race to the bottom.”
The leaderboard has The Washington Post as first, followed by MSNBC, CBS News, CNN, The New York Times, Politico and The Wall Street Journal.
A spokesperson for The Washington Post said the outlet is “proud of its accurate, rigorous journalism.”
Under a repeat offenders section, other outlets are also mentioned, including Axios, The Hill, The Associated Press and USA Today, among others.
It comes as reports highlight the times Mr. Trump has lashed out at female reporters, like telling a Bloomberg journalist “Quiet Piggy” when she asked a question about deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, or calling a New York Times reporter “a third rate reporter who is ugly, both inside and out.”
The president has also had several lawsuits against the media. He said he intends to sue BBC for libel and estimated his damages to be from $1 billion to $5 billion over an edited speech he gave in 2021.
He has sued The New York Times for defamation, The Wall Street Journal over Epstein coverage and settled suits with Walt Disney and ABC News over comments from anchor George Stephanopoulos and CBS News for their edited 60 Minutes speech with then-Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, among others.
