WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump appeared to call Monday for a boycott of AT&T in order to force “big changes” at CNN after criticizing the cable news network’s coverage as he began a visit to Britain.
“I believe that if people stopped using or subscribing to ATT, they would be forced to make big changes at CNN, which is dying in the ratings anyway,” he said in a tweet with a spelling mistake. “It is so unfair with such bad, Fake News!
Why wouldn’t they act. When the World watches CNN, it gets a false picture of USA. Sad!” Trump has had a running feud with CNN, which was acquired by AT&T earlier this year in a merger with Time-Warner that was unsuccessfully opposed by the Justice Department.
The president complained on arriving in Britain that he had watched CNN “for a short while” as a primary source of US news but turned it off. “All negative & so much Fake News, very bad for U.S. Big ratings drop. Why doesn’t owner ATT do something?”