Donald Trump Quotes

The press is dishonest, but the political press is especially dishonest.

I think the media is among the most dishonest groups of people I've ever met.

The media are very dishonest. In fact, in covering my comments, the dishonest media did not explain that I called the fake news the enemy of the people - the fake news. They dropped off the word "fake." And all of the sudden, the story became, the media is the enemy. They take the word "fake" out, and now I'm saying, oh, no, this is no good. But that's the way they are. So I'm not against the media. I'm not against the press. I don't mind bad stories if I deserve them. And I tell you, I love good stories, but we won't - I don't get too many of them.

I didn't say a bad thing about 'Politico' in my book.

Some of the media is fantastic, I have to say, they're honest and fantastic, but much of it is not.

I wish the press was fair. They're really dishonest. The media is really dishonest. It's incredible.

The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives.

Journalism, as practiced by some, has become something akin to professional wrestling—something to watch rather than believe.

From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in the open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice.

I will not have New York Times muck-racking the President of the United States.

All in all, I just don't trust journalists - and I don't think it's a good practice for me to trust journalists.

We're not into all those dodgy journos who makes stories up.

The biggest danger to media, and what ultimately drove it apart from the public's trust, are the people who believe that they are uncorrupted when their body of work doesn't support such a belief.

So often on CNN, there's a world-class journalist interviewing campaign rejects and ideologues and silly, craven people who do not care about informing people, that aren't there to help people understand what's going on in the news.

The media doesn't have credibility.

Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

The most consistent and ultimately damaging failure of political journalism in America (is that it) has its roots in the clubby/cocktail personal relationships that inevitably develop between politicians and journalists.

Everybody wrings their hands about Fox News. You know, "fair and balanced? Why, that's snide!" Yeah, okay, maybe they're not fair and balanced, but CNN used to have the slogan "You Can Depend on CNN". Guess what? I watch it, no you can't. So what's the difference?

The media are very smart, they're very cunning, and they're very dishonest.

The idea that a reporter has to be 'fair and balanced' is ridiculous. The fact is, the truth usually is not fair and it's not balanced. Truth stands by itself. And the idea that something called fair and balanced is a substitute for truth and fact is mindless nonsense that has captured much of the national media.

I feel much more strongly about the abdication of responsibility by the media than by political advocates. They're representing a constituency.

The press has become so dishonest that if we don't talk about, we are doing a tremendous disservice to the American people. Tremendous disservice. We have to talk to find out what's going on, because the press honestly is out of control. The level of dishonesty is out of control.