WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the news network CNN should be sold as part of a deal for its parent company Warner Bros Discovery or separately.
“CNN should be sold,” Trump told reporters at the White House.
Trump has been a vocal critic of CNN, frequently branding the network as “fake news” and accusing it of biased coverage against him. He has described CNN as “one of the worst in the business” and mocked its ratings as “so low they’re not even counted or relevant anymore.”
Warner Bros is being courted by streaming giant Netflix and Paramount Skydance in separate deals with very different terms.
Warner Bros accepted Netflix’s offer last week, which prompted Paramount to launch a hostile bid on Monday.
(Reporting by Steve Holland and Trevor Hunnicutt in Washington, and Sayantani Ghosh in San Francisco; Editing by Leslie Adler and Nick Zieminski)
