--- title: Donald Trump: Media 'Doesn't Want to Report' on Terrorism description: President Donald Trump falsely claimed the media "doesn't want to report" on terrorist attacks and had not reported on attacks in the past canonical: https://time.com/4661625/president-trump-media-report-terrorism/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-06T20:35:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T12:16:27.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: President Trump Says Media 'Doesn't Want to Report' on Terror Attacks og:description: But he didn't have any evidence og:url: https://time.com/4661625/president-trump-media-report-terrorism/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb8d474f8c2324880/6988b8fe196cf497ec03ec20/donald-trump-media-ignores-terror.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Donald Trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Trump Says Media 'Doesn't Want to Report' on Terror Attacks twitter:description: But he didn't have any evidence twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb8d474f8c2324880/6988b8fe196cf497ec03ec20/donald-trump-media-ignores-terror.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Trump Says Media 'Doesn't Want to Report' on Terror Attacks by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Updated: Dec 13, 2023 12:16 PM UTCPublished: Feb 6, 2017 8:35 PM UTC  President Donald Trump speaks to troops while visiting U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., on Feb. 6, 2017. President Donald Trump speaks to troops while visiting U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., on Feb. 6, 2017.Susan Walsh—AP by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Updated: Dec 13, 2023 12:16 PM UTCPublished: Feb 6, 2017 8:35 PM UTC President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the media “doesn’t want to report” on terrorist attacks while delivering remarks to members of the military at MacDill Air Force Base on Monday. “It’s gotten to a point where it’s not even being reported,” he said, referring to terrorist attacks carried out in the last few years in the U.S. and Europe — all of which were [covered by the press](http://time.com/4365965/orlando-shooting-bataclan-paris-copycat/). “And in many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn’t want to report it. They have their reasons and you understand that.” > [](https://twitter.com/davidmackau/status/828679879763820544) Trump’s speech came a few hours after he attacked the media on Twitter, accusing the New York _Times_ of writing “total fiction” about him, regarding recent reports about [turmoil](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/05/us/politics/trump-white-house-aides-strategy.html) among his staff. He has repeatedly referred to news outlets like the _Times_ and CNN as “fake news” and [said](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/828574430800539648) on Monday that “any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election.” > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/828642511698669569) > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/828575949268606977) > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/828574430800539648) The President also said the U.S. “strongly” supports the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Trump repeatedly questioned whether the organization was a beneficial deal for Americans during his campaign, and threatened to pull out of the military alliance, calling it [“obsolete.”](http://time.com/4652108/donald-trump-theresa-may-russia-nato/) “We only ask that all of the NATO members make their full and proper financial contributions to the NATO Alliance, which many of them have not been doing,” he said during Monday’s speech. “Many of them have not been even close. And they have to do that.” **Correction**: The original of this story misquoted Trump’s accusation against the New York _Times._ He accused it of writing “total fiction” about him, not “total fan fiction.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4661625/president-trump-media-report-terrorism/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4661625/president-trump-media-report-terrorism/"},"headline":"President Trump Says Media 'Doesn't Want to Report' on Terror Attacks","datePublished":"2017-02-06T20:35:01.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T12:16:27.000Z","description":"But he didn't have any evidence","url":"https://time.com/4661625/president-trump-media-report-terrorism/","keywords":["White House","Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb8d474f8c2324880/6988b8fe196cf497ec03ec20/donald-trump-media-ignores-terror.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb8d474f8c2324880/6988b8fe196cf497ec03ec20/donald-trump-media-ignores-terror.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump","caption":"President Donald Trump speaks to troops while visiting U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla.,Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. 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