CNN: Trump gets facts wrong in attacks against NBC's "Today" show

[highplainsdem]

It's good to see networks standing up for each other when Trump attacks.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/18/media/nbc-today-show-donald-trump-tweets/index.html

No, Donald Trump, NBC's "Today" show is not doing "badly."

It is actually America's highest-rated morning show among 25- to 54-year-olds, the key demographic for advertisers, and it is just 100,000 viewers behind ABC's "Good Morning America" among all viewers.

The high-rated morning show attracted Trump's ire on Wednesday by broadcasting a report that cast doubt on his job-creating record.

The report -- part of a new franchise called "Today's Fact Check" -- called Trump's impact "very small or non-existent."

Trump called that assertion "fake news."

"Ask top CEO's of those companies for real facts," he wrote, insisting that packages of jobs "came back because of me!"

The facts are much more complicated. As NBC, CNN and other news outlets have reported, a number of big companies have announced previously-planned investments in the United States in ways that allow Trump to take credit.

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[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. And neither organization will get a seat at Trump's press conference.

Pretty sure the press room will be filled up with Fox News, Breitbart, Infowars, RT, One America, with the rest being Trump's personal cheering section.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

2. Go CNN!

[Motley13]

3. blotus is just pissed at NBC because of SNL & MSNBC

[Cha]

7. "blotus" is good.. Bloviating Lout of the United States.

[doc03]

4. I will guess Fox and Friends has the 54 and over white market sewed up nt

[Cha]

5. shocking. Is he ever just going to tweet himself

into a pile of burning shite?

[DFW]

6. Trump reminds me of the leader of the revolution in "Bananas"

"From now on, the official language of San Marcos will be Swedish! Men must change their underwear every half hour, and they must wear their underwear on the outside so we can check!"

[yallerdawg]

8. "Came back because of me."

This guy is psychotically nuts.

He's getting played by corporate PR spin, and then spinning us!

While it's true Republican control of Congress and the presidency can be considered as a more favorable tax and profit environment for corporate interests, it would have been so if any one of the Republican primary candidates had won.

Corrupt Trump is insane.

[central scrutinizer]

11. The sun rose in the east this morning

You can thank Drumpf for that

[DallasNE]

9. What Trump Is Taking Credit For

Is a tiny fraction of the new jobs created on a monthly basis. Not only that but this is the period when companies make their annual reports. My guess is that if you went back exactly one year you would find similar messages coming for corporate America.

[Wounded Bear]

10. Isn't that a...

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

12. Hey, remember when President Obama was constantly tweeting schoolyard taunts to

news organizations, reporters, etc?

Yeah, no. It's pathetic.

[JI7]

13. i wish they would stand up for the people he attacks and the lies he tells about serious matters

[VOX]

14. Man, he really ran with the "Fake News" meme

And the bastard has flipped the context 180 degrees.

Everything they touch turns to hateful shit.