Trump Mocks Media For Covering Him at UNGA: ‘I Knew That Would Happen!’

President Donald Trump continued to make the case for his unprecedented media ban on Tuesday, mocking reporters for showing up to cover him at the United Nations General Assembly and declaring, “I knew that would happen!”

On Monday, the five television networks that make up the White House press pool — CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox News, and CNN — announced they would join forces to effectively suspend pool coverage of the president in response to his ban of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico.

All three targeted networks have since filed a federal lawsuit.

And on Tuesday, while Fox News aired Trump’s UN speech, MS NOW dropped out of coverage and launched a brutal fact-check, while CNN never took it at all.

When Trump entered the building, though, he snapped at CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, “You shouldn’t be here!” to which she responded, “The United Nations allowed us in, sir.”

When answering questions alongside British Prime Minister Andy Burnham, the president again took a jab at reporters while responding to an inquiry on the fate of the network’s lawsuit.

He has already posted on Truth Social that he doesn’t expect a win in the case. A snippet of that rant reads:

They have drawn a great Judge, for them, a man who ruled in favor of Jim Acosta, who now seems to have disappeared from the Planet. The Judge’s name is Tim Kelly, and he was, sadly, appointed by “TRUMP.” In other words, almost without question and, as usual, we’ll go for appeal…

A reporter asked Tuesday, “If the district court decides against you, will you let the three media outlets back in?”

“Well, they probably will because this is a judge who is not a particularly fair judge,” Trump said. “You never know, but I’m talking about national security. I think we have a right to clean out fake news, you know? News is fake, and by the way, they said they weren’t gonna be here, but they came. I knew that would happen! What, are they not gonna be with [Chinese] President Xi [Jinping] tomorrow?”

“We have a lot of fake news,” the president continued. “I think when news is fake, and it’s actually dangerous, I think I have a right to clear it out.”

“How is it dangerous?” a reporter followed up.

“When they make statements about the war, when they make false statements — false, malicious — and they don’t have sources, but they say they do. No, no, it’s very dangerous for our country, and I won’t stand for it,” Trump claimed.

In his General Assembly speech earlier on Tuesday, the president slammed the “cowards and traitors” who’ve reported that the U.S. is low on munitions — even though his own Defense Department recently confirmed the same.

Watch above on BBC.

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