WThe White House has unveiled a new section of its official website that directly criticises and catalogues media organisations and journalists it claims have distorted coverage of President Donald Trump.
The page, introduced on Friday, opens with the headline: “Misleading. Biased. Exposed.” It identifies the Boston Globe, CBS News and the Independent as “media offenders of the week”, accusing them of misrepresenting Trump’s remarks about six Democratic lawmakers. Those lawmakers had released a video urging military personnel not to follow unlawful orders.
The controversy stems from Trump’s own social media posts, in which he accused Democrats of “seditious behaviour, punishable by death”. He also reposted a statement containing the words: “hang them.”
According to the White House site, “The Democrats and Fake News Media subversively implied that President Trump had issued illegal orders to service members. Every order President Trump has issued has been lawful. It is dangerous for sitting Members of Congress to incite insubordination in the United States’ military, and President Trump called for them to be held accountable.”
Alongside the weekly offenders, the page features an “Offender Hall of Shame”. This section includes the Washington Post, CBS News, CNN and MSNBC, which has recently rebranded as MS Now. Visitors can browse a searchable database of articles, each tagged with categories such as “bias”, “malpractice” or “left wing lunacy”. The names of individual journalists are also listed.
A leaderboard currently places the Washington Post at the top of the offender rankings, followed by MSNBC and CBS News. Among the Post’s articles singled out is a report earlier this month stating that the US Coast Guard would cease classifying swastikas and nooses as hate symbols. The Coast Guard reversed the decision shortly after publication. The Post acknowledged the reversal in a follow-up article and, in its coverage of the new tracker, quoted a spokesperson who said: “The Washington Post is proud of its accurate, rigorous journalism.”
Beyond those highlighted as weekly offenders, the White House page also names the Associated Press, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Politico and Axios among a longer list of outlets accused of bias or misinformation.
The launch of the tracker marks the latest escalation in Trump’s long-running campaign against the press. It follows lawsuits filed against the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, settlements reached with ABC and CBS, and repeated references to major news organisations as the “enemy of the people”.
In recent weeks, Trump has intensified his personal attacks on female journalists. Earlier this month, he clashed with a Bloomberg News correspondent aboard Air Force One, referring to her as a “piggy” after being questioned about the Epstein files. Days later, when pressed by an ABC News reporter on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi and the Epstein scandal, Trump dismissed her as a “terrible person”.
Last week, in a post on Truth Social, Trump described a New York Times correspondent as “a third rate reporter who is ugly, both inside and out”. The remark followed an article she co-authored suggesting the president was showing signs of fatigue in his eightieth year.
The new online tracker underscores Trump’s determination to confront the media directly, not only through legal action and public statements but now via an official government platform.
