Trump Recognizes Brendan Carr for His Efforts to ‘Make the Fake News Real and Respected Again’

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TRUMP: "I also want to thank FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, perhaps the most powerful man in this room. You are doing some job. He’s trying to keep the fake news, he's trying to make the fake news real and respected again, which is not an easy job. But you're doing a really amazing job. First time that’s happened in 25 years, so I congratulate you and everybody in the room. Everybody in this whole country is watching what you’re doing and we appreciate it. When a man can get elected in a landslide, winning every — think of it, seven swing states, won 'em all, we win the popular vote, we win the Electoral College by tremendous amount, we win the counties by 82 or 84 percent, and I got no good press. Think of it. Only one thing, that only means one thing: these people are not respected, they're just not respected. And we have to have a press that's respected. When you can win an election where they say that I got 94 percent bad press, think of it, the other side got 94 percent good press, when they can get 94 percent and you win in a landslide, that means the press is not respected, people have no confidence in it. So you're doing a fantastic job."