--- description: President Donald Trump posted a video to Twitter on Sunday that depicts him punching a physical representation of CNN in the face. title: Trump Just Tweeted a Video of Him Punching CNN in the Face image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt55357b4d4680d539/6988d42b4ee262b82230dfa5/ap_17179695626107.jpg?branch=production ---  * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [White House](/tag/white-house/) ## White House Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # President Trump Just Tweeted a Video of Him Punching CNN in the Face  by [Alana Abramson](/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 2, 2017 2:55 PM CUT  WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 30: (AFP OUT) U.S President Donald Trump looks on during a meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in the Oval Office of the White House on June 30, 2017 in Washington, DC. President Trump and President Moon will hold an Oval Office meeting and then give joint statements in the Rose Garden. (Photo by Olivier Douliery - Pool/Getty Images) WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 30: (AFP OUT) U.S President Donald Trump looks on during a meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in the Oval Office of the White House on June 30, 2017 in Washington, DC. President Trump and President Moon will hold an Oval Office meeting and then give joint statements in the Rose Garden. (Photo by Olivier Douliery - Pool/Getty Images)Photograph by Olivier Pool/Getty  by [Alana Abramson](/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 2, 2017 2:55 PM CUT [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/4841282/donald-trump-mika-brzezinski-morning-joe-scarborough/ "undefined") posted a video to Twitter on Sunday that depicts him punching a physical representation of CNN in the face, the latest escalation in [his ongoing war against the news media](http://time.com/4843278/donald-trump-twitter/ "undefined") and one that raised the specter of actual violence. The video posted Sunday morning to Trump’s Twitter feed is of an actual 2007 staged spectacle in a wrestling arena, when Trump, then a reality TV star, brought WWE head Vince McMahon to the ground in their “battle of the billionaires.” But the video was edited with CNN’s logo imposed on McMahon’s face. In the video, Trump spends about 10 seconds punching the opponent with the CNN logo before the now-President walks away, seemingly unscathed. The video concludes with an image similar to CNN’s logo, but with the acronym FNN — representing “Fraud News Network,” Trump’s latest moniker for one of his most frequent media targets. > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/881503147168071680) Thomas Bossert, a homeland security adviser to Trump, was asked about the tweet on ABC’ News’ _This Week with George Stephanopoulos. “_My first reaction to that tweet would be the same as any of the President’s tweets: there’s a lot of cable news shows that reach directly into hundreds of thousands of viewers and they’re really not always fair to the President,” Bossert said. “No one would perceive that as a threat, I hope they don’t,” Bossert continued. “But I do think that he’s beaten up in a way on cable programs that he has a right to respond to.” But other reactions to the tweet, which came just days after the [Trump attacked ](http://fortune.com/2017/06/29/donald-trump-twitter-mika-brzezinski/ "undefined")MSNBC’s _Morning Joe_ co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, included concern for the safety of reporters. “It is an incitement to violence,” Republican strategist Ana Navarro, who is a commentator on CNN, said on _This Week._ “He is going to get somebody killed in the media.” CNN at first responded on Twitter by simply quoting White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who said only days earlier that Trump “in no way form or fashion has ever promoted or encouraged violence.” > [](https://twitter.com/CNNPR/status/881516287104516096) The cable news network later called it “a sad day when the President of the United States encourages violence against reporters. > [](https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/881521502541144064) Brian Stelter, CNN’s senior media correspondent, noted on Twitter that the video had surfaced [on a Reddit thread](https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/881506511586902021 "undefined") days earlier, with the caption “Trump takes down fake news.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4843303/donald-trump-twitter-cnn-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4843303/donald-trump-twitter-cnn-video/"},"headline":"President Trump Just Tweeted a Video of Him Punching CNN in the Face","datePublished":"2017-07-02T14:55:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T16:24:58.879Z","description":"The latest escalation of his war against the media raises the specter of actual violence","url":"https://time.com/4843303/donald-trump-twitter-cnn-video/","keywords":["White House","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt55357b4d4680d539/6988d42b4ee262b82230dfa5/ap_17179695626107.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alana Abramson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt55357b4d4680d539/6988d42b4ee262b82230dfa5/ap_17179695626107.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 answers a question about health care during a meeting with the 2016 World Series Champions Chicago Cubs, June 28, 2017, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.","creditText":"Photograph by Olivier Pool/Getty","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4843303/donald-trump-twitter-cnn-video/","name":"President Trump Just Tweeted a Video of Him Punching CNN in the Face"}}]}] ```