The White House has unveiled a new section on its official website that publicly criticises and catalogues media organisations and journalists it claims have distorted coverage. The page, launched on Friday, is the latest escalation in President Donald Trump’s long-running attacks on the press.
At the top of the page, the text reads: “Misleading. Biased. Exposed.” It names the Boston Globe, CBS News and the Independent as “media offenders of the week”, accusing them of inaccurately portraying Trump’s remarks about six Democratic lawmakers who released a video encouraging military members not to follow illegal orders. The controversy arose after Trump accused Democrats of “seditious behaviour, punishable by death” on social media and reposted a statement including the words “hang them”.
The site also features an “Offender Hall of Shame”, which includes the Washington Post, CBS News, CNN and MSNBC. Visitors can browse a searchable database of articles, along with the names of the journalists who wrote them, with each story categorised under labels such as “bias”, “malpractice” or “left wing lunacy”. A leaderboard currently ranks the Washington Post as the top offender, with MSNBC and CBS News in second and third place.
Among the articles named is a Washington Post report that the US Coast Guard would stop classifying swastikas and nooses as hate symbols, an action the Coast Guard reversed after publication. The Post acknowledged the reversal in a follow-up article. The White House page also lists the Associated Press, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Politico and Axios among outlets it accuses of bias or misinformation.
The launch follows lawsuits against the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, legal settlements with ABC and CBS, and Trump’s repeated references to major news outlets as the “enemy of the people”. In recent weeks, Trump has also intensified personal attacks on female journalists, calling a Bloomberg News correspondent a “piggy” and an ABC News correspondent a “terrible person”.
