Like a mad dog with a bone, the Trump administration won’t or can’t let it go with CNN today over the cable news channel’s coverage of the ongoing war with Iran.
“Fake News CNN is at it again,” proclaims a missive just put out by the White House mere hours after former Fox News host Pete Hegseth blew his brylcreamed top at CNN over the state of the Strait of Hormuz.
Earlier Friday, in-house brawler (and Communications Director) Steven Cheung just went straight for a kick between the legs and called the potentially soon-to-be David Ellison and Paramount-owned CNN a “sh*tty outlet.”
The language was a bit more white gloved in the official White House release, but the sentiment was unchanged.
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“While U.S. forces deliver crushing blows to obliterate Iran’s terrorist regime, CNN’s hack ‘journalists’ are peddling Democrat-sourced fiction to undermine our decisive victories in Operation Epic Fury,” the Friday afternoon outrage dump from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue added.
Lathering up Donald Trump’s “bold and resolute leadership,” even as oil prices spike, markets roller coaster, missiles fly in every direction in the Middle East and Ukrainian war sanctions against Russia are being lifted, the White House insists the nearly two week-long war is going peachy. “No amount of CNN hackery will change that,” the administration states, citing its own staff and sycophantic Senators as proof of how well organized the White House plans to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program and murderous regime are going.
The release put out by the White House is on the heels of barbed posts by top aide Cheung and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt against CNN and several other outlets.
When @ZcohenCNN is on the byline, you know it’s FAKE NEWS. His unnamed sources are former Obama and Biden people, Iranian Regime sympathizers, low-level Democrat staffers on the Hill, and liberal donors/activists. https://t.co/LIG43MvnEc
— Steven Cheung (@StevenCheung47) March 13, 2026
Yes 100%. When Fake News outlets like CNN publishes verifiably false information, it is completely appropriate to comment on how shitty outlets are run. https://t.co/q9YZiUL9Mz
— Steven Cheung (@StevenCheung47) March 13, 2026
Or as Hegseth put it of longtime thorn in Trump’s paw CNN in this morning’s contentious Pentagon briefing (saying the not so-quiet party line thing out loud to score points with the boss): “The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better.”
Read the latest of this week’s numerous jabs and rock thows against CNN from Team Trump below:
| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 03/13/26 |
| CNN Is Lying to Undermine Operation Epic Fury’s Crushing SuccessFake News CNN is at it again. While U.S. forces deliver crushing blows to obliterate Iran’s terrorist regime, CNN’s hack “journalists” are peddling Democrat-sourced fiction to undermine our decisive victories in Operation Epic Fury.
CNN alleged the Pentagon and the National Security Council “did not plan” for Iran’s willingness to close the Strait of Hormuz.Wrong. CNN further alleged “top Trump officials acknowledged” this to lawmakers in a classified briefing.Wrong. Under President Trump’s bold and resolute leadership, Operation Epic Fury continues to advance its clear objectives: destroying Iran’s ballistic missile arsenal and production capacity, obliterating its navy, severing its support for its terrorist proxies, and ensuring the regime can never threaten the free world with nuclear weapons. No amount of CNN hackery will change that. |
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