US President Donald Trump plans to present awards for dishonesty and poor reporting in the media.
The ‘THE MOST DISHONEST & CORRUPT MEDIA AWARDS OF THE YEAR’ will be presented at 5pm local time on January 8, Trump said in a tweet from his official account on Wednesday.
The awards will have various categories for ‘Fake News Media’ reports, highlighting their ‘falsehoods’, the US president said.
It is unclear how the president intends to carry out the unprecedented gesture against the news media.
But in November, Trump floated the idea of awarding a “fake news trophy” to media outlets to mark their “distorted” coverage of his presidency.
The president has frequently lambasted the media for what he has cast as biased reporting, routinely dismissing damaging reports about his administration as “fake news” and accusing journalists of being tied to the Democratic Party.
Several global media say, Trump also took aim at North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during his tweet storm on Wednesday morning.
He called out Kim’s recent comment regarding the ‘nuclear button’ on his desk, stating:
“Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger and more powerful one than his, and my Button works!”