Trump: You Can’t Use Public Airwaves To Criticize Me

“When you’re using public airwaves and you cover a candidate for months, you cover him as a negatively as possible — or her, could be her — and then, all of a sudden that candidate wins in a landslide and it’s very exciting and everybody wants to watch and you don’t cover his speech, it’s incredible.

“I guess it was Fake Tapper or somebody turned it off, he said, ‘Turn it off. I think, actually, MSNBC did do it — ‘MSDNC’ — but they did do it too.

“But I think it was CNN that didn’t cover it. Jake Tapper, who I used to know and actually sort of liked him, actually, but he hurts himself very badly when he does a thing like that. And he hurts the ratings, too. You look at CNN ratings, they’re so bad.

“You’re covering someone for a year, and this is the culmination, this is the big moment, and people want to watch it, and you say, ‘I’m not going to put his speech on.’ How can you do that?” – Trump, when asked about his threats to revoke the FCC licenses of critical outlets.

And once again, we note that cable outlets like CNN and MSNBC do not broadcast over “public airwaves” and therefore do not hold licenses to do so.