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Trump tweets video of him ‘wrestling’ CNN
Donald Trump posts a video, that had originally appeared on Reddit, of himself wrestling a man with the CNN logo for a head
The clip was originally submitted to a pro-Trump forum on the social media site Reddit
US President Donald Trump has tweeted a short video clip of him wrestling a person with the CNN logo for a head.
The clip is an altered version of Donald Trump's appearance at a WWE wrestling event in 2007, in which he "attacked" franchise owner Vince McMahon in a scripted appearance.
The animation appears to have been posted to a pro-Trump Reddit thread earlier in the week.
CNN responded with a tweet that quoted Trump’s own deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who had recently said: “The President in no way, form or fashion has ever promoted or encouraged violence. If anything, quite the contrary.”
In a statement, CNN said it is a “sad day when the President of the United States encourages violence against reporters”.
“Clearly, Sarah Huckabee Sanders lies when she said the President had never [encouraged violence],” the statement read. “Instead of preparing for his overseas trip, his first meeting with Vladimir Putin, dealing with North Korea and working on his health care bill, he is instead involved in juvenile behaviour far bellow the dignity of his office. We will keep doing our jobs. He should start doing his.”
CNN's top White House Correspondent, who has been critical of the White House's attitude to the press, simply tweeted: "Isn't pro wrestling fake?"
A panellist on ABC's morning show, Ana Navarro - a Republican Trump critic and CNN contributor - warned: "it is an incitement to violence. He is going to get somebody killed in the media."
However, Homeland Security Adviser Thomas Bossert, said: "No-one would perceive that as a threat."
Trump has repeatedly clashed with the CNN news network, which he calls "fake news".
His unusual tweet comes a day after he said his use of social media "is not Presidential – it’s modern day presidential”.
Last week, Trump launched a personal attack on MSNBC hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, saying that the former had been “bleeding badly from a facelift” when he saw her six months ago and mocking the latter as “psycho Joe”
