President Donald Trump has canceled the White House subscriptions to The New York Times and The Washington Post and has instructed all government agencies to do the same, official sources said Thursday.
“Not renewing subscriptions in all federal agencies will be a significant cost saving, we will save hundreds of thousands of dollars from taxpayers,” White House spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said in a statement.
In addition, government officials reported that these two newspapers will stop arriving at the White House, which is also subscribed to The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Financial Times or The New York Post.
Trump advanced his decision in an early interview with Fox News earlier this week: “We don’t even want them (to the Times) in the White House anymore. We will probably end (the subscription) to the Washington Post. It’s fake news. ”
Ever since Trump came to power, there has been a lot of confrontation with US media such as CNN, the New York Times and Washington following publications on the alleged interference of the Kremlin in the 2016 elections.
Since he is president, his criticisms of the media remain frequent and are already part of the daily life of American politics.
Trump calls out the media through his tweets or during his rallies for spreading “fake news” and being “dishonest” against him.
In fact, Trump has coined motives for the newspapers to which he has canceled the subscription: the New Yorker Times he calls “failed New York Times”, and labeling the Post the “Amazon Washington Post” because it is owned by billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
Subscriptions to the New York Times have recently fallen after the newspaper came under fire for publishing biographical information about the so-called “whistleblower” at the center of the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.
