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- On Sunday, President Donald Trump lashed out at the media on Twitter, calling for journalists to be sued, and demanding they return their "Noble prizes" for their work reporting on Russian interference in the 2016 elections. He swiftly deleted the tweets.
- It's likely he misspelled Nobel, but the Nobel Prize is not awarded for works of journalism. He could have been thinking of the Pulitzer Prizes.
- After deleting the threat, he tweeted again and asked if sarcasm ever works.
- It's the second time this week he's tried to deflect blame by saying he was being sarcastic. The first time was for suggesting injections of household disinfectants could be a treatment for coronavirus — a dangerous suggestion that horrified public health experts.
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President Donald Trump lashed out at the media on Sunday, telling them to return their "Noble prizes" for their reporting on Russia, before he swiftly deleted the tweets.
In a thread that's since been deleted, he wrote: "When will all of the "reporters" who have received Noble Prizes for their work on Russia, Russia, Russia, only to have been proven totally wrong (and, in fact, it was the other side who committed the crimes) be turning back their cherished "Nobles" so that they can be given to the REAL REPORTERS & JOURNALISTS who got it right."
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