CNN host Jake Tapper said Saturday that the White House canceled national security adviser John Bolton’s appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union” after President Trump’s tense exchange with a network correspondent at a Friday press conference.
Tapper tweeted that Bolton was scheduled to appear on the Sunday show and “remains fully prepared to do the interview but the White House has canceled it.”
{mosads}Tapper cited Trump’s refusal to take a question from CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta during a press conference in London on Friday. He called the network “fake news” at the time.
The Hill has reached out to the White House for comment.
“CNN is fake news. I don’t take questions from CNN,” Trump said at a press conference Friday after Acosta tried to ask a question.
“Let’s go to a real network,” the president said, before turning to Fox News’s John Roberts.
At the end of the briefing, as Trump was leaving, Acosta yelled a question about whether Trump would tell Russian President Vladimir Putin to stay out of U.S. elections, to which Trump replied “yes.”
Trump had also taken a question from a CNN reporter during a Thursday press conference after the NATO summit in Brussels.
Trump falsely claimed in a tweet early Saturday that the network hadn’t covered his exchange, which he called a “takedown,” with Acosta.
Trump has repeatedly slammed CNN, among other media outlets and newspapers, as “fake news.”
Last year he tweeted out a doctored video of him attacking a person whose face was replaced with the CNN logo.