President Trump's long-awaited announcement of the "Fake News Awards" was temporarily delayed Wednesday when the website of the Republican Party, where the awards were to be listed, crashed.
But the site recovered and the awards were unveiled.
All in all, 11 "winners" were listed, beginning with New York Times columnist Paul Krugman:
Second place went to ABC News correspondent Brian Ross:
And third place was allotted to CNN:
Other winners included Time magazine for incorrectly reporting that Trump had moved a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. out of the Oval Office; The Washington Post for discounting the size of "the President's massive sold-out rally" in Pensacola, Fla., in early December; CNN's editing of a video of Trump with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe making it appear that the president "defiantly overfed fish."
CNN was listed two other times for stories about Trump's conversations with former FBI Director James Comey and the network's retraction of a story alleging that former communications advisor Anthony Scaramucci had met with a Russian.
These were followed by a Newsweek report and another New York Times story.
The president saved his last award, not for a specific new organization, but for his claim that there was no collusion with Russia, which he dismissed as a "hoax."
As the clock ticked down to the release of the awards list, there was considerable speculation that the awards wouldn't happen at all. Trump had first said that the awards would be announced on Jan. 8.
Earlier in the day, in a speech delivered on the Senate floor, Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) blasted the president for calling the press the "enemy of the people," a phrase first used by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.
And Trump himself tweeted that not all news is fake news.
Despite some very corrupt and dishonest media coverage, there are many great reporters I respect and lots of GOOD NEWS for the American people to be proud of!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 18, 2018
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