Donald Trump

NEW YORK (AP) — An estimated 27 percent of Americans believe the news media has been too easy on Donald Trump. The Pew Research Center said Thursday that more people […]

In a series of interviews over the past week, the Republican nominee has asserted that “the system is being rigged” against him. The first of three scheduled debates between Trump and Hillary Clinton will be held on Sept. 26, with NBC’s Lester Holt as the journalist questioning the candidates.

Lots of political observers are talking about the prospect of “Trump TV.” But not the man himself. Donald Trump says he is not seeking to launch a television network or streaming service if he loses the presidential election. “I have no interest in a media company. False rumor.”

Thursday’s show in which the presidential candidate disclosed some medical records boosts the syndicated talker to its best ratings since July 2014.

Today, the Republican presidential nominee sat down with Mehmet Oz, aka Dr. Oz, to discuss Trump’s own health, as well as his views on national health care policy. During the interview on the syndicated Dr. Oz Show, which will air on Thursday, Trump shared with the host the results of a physical examination that he underwent last week with his own personal doctor.

In an interview Monday on CNBC’s Squawk Box, Donald Trump predicted the upcoming presidential debates would be “very unfair,” and suggested doing away with moderators entirely. “Let Hillary and I sit there and just debate,” he said.

Spending on the presidential race is about a third of what it was four years ago, and the Republican candidate has been slow to invest. It will still be a record year, but under $3 billion.

As of Thursday, the Trump campaign will be granting press credentials to formerly “blacklisted” news organizations including The Washington Post and BuzzFeed. Given that there are less than two months remaining in the general election and the ban was almost impossible to enforce in a democratic nation with a free press, what else can be said except why did it ever take this long?

As Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump now starts up a paid TV advertising campaign, he continues to lead in earned media over Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. For August, Trump pulled in $509.3 million in earned media compared to Clinton’s $364.2 million, according to mediaQuant. In July — the month in which respective party conventions were held — the race was closer, with Trump getting $573.4 million compared to $539.8 million for Clinton.

After months of being swamped on the swing-state airwaves by Hillary Clinton and her allies, Donald Trump’s campaign this week announced a broad and extensive television advertising campaign that included ads set to run in nearly all the battleground states. But Trump’s actual investment over the next week or so falls far short of his campaign’s claims.

Donald Trump’s campaign will spend more than $10 million in TV ads in the next week or so, marking the mogul’s largest ad buy of the election. The TV spots will begin airing today and will be viewed in nine swing states: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, a master of free publicity, didn’t start running general-election presidential campaign ads until Aug. 19, roughly two months after his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton. Here are some data snapshots about Trump’s initial burst of broadcast TV advertising.

Hillary Clinton has buried Donald Trump in an avalanche of negative TV ads in an effort to kill off the Republican presidential nominee’s campaign before he starts to fire back. Clinton’s campaign had spent about $60 million on TV ads before Trump went on the air for the first time with a $4 million buy in four swing states: Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and North Carolina. The money spent on all pro-Clinton advertising had reached $104 million by last week, according to data from NBC News and Advertising Analytics. All pro-Trump advertising has reached about one-ninth of that figure.

Trump’s campaign has ordered broadcast TV ads totaling $4 million over the next two weeks in the battleground states of Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Ohio. The first spots will air on today. An additional $900,000 worth of cable TV ads in those states has also been placed.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is steeling himself for a protracted battle against an increasingly hostile press, adding the media to the list of establishment institutions he intends to crush on his way to the White House.

Donald Trump this weekend will begin airing general election advertisements, putting an end to an unprecedented advertising gap. Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort and other aides told about 50 Capitol Hill Republicans on a conference call Tuesday that he would begin advertisements in five states, according to a congressional source: Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania — all places where Trump is trailing solidly.

Roger Ailes, the former Fox News chairman ousted last month over charges of sexual harassment, is advising Donald Trump as he begins to prepare for the all-important presidential debates this fall. Ailes is aiding  Trump’s team as it turns its attention to the first debate with Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, on Sept. 26, according to four people briefed on the move, who insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter.

NBC Chairman Bob Greenblatt ripped Donald Trump as “pompous” and “toxic,” and even took a shot at the ratings of Celebrity Apprentice in a post on his personal Facebook page. “Sad state of affairs thanks to a pompous businessman turned reality TV star (whose show consistently ran LAST in its time period, by the way) who thinks speaking his mind is refreshing,” Greenblatt wrote. “It’s actually corrosive and toxic because his ‘mind’ is so demented; and his effect will unfortunately linger long after he’s been told to get off the stage.”

In speeches, tweets and TV appearances, Mr. Trump and his backers in recent days suggested he would be ahead in the polls if the media didn’t favor his opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton. “If the disgusting and corrupt media covered me honestly and didn’t put false meaning into the words I say, I would be beating Hillary by 20%,” Trump tweeted Sunday.

Donald Trump’s battles with the media are giving Hillary Clinton cover to not institute a protective pool, which would cover the candidate’s every move and ride on the campaign plane in the same way the White House press pool does and which typically begins when the candidates becomes the party’s official nominee.

Supporters of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton are swamping Republicans who back Donald Trump on television in swing states across the country this week as polls show Clinton taking wide leads. All told, Clinton’s campaign and Democratic groups are spending nearly $9.3 million on television advertisements in seven swing states this week. Two Republican groups that back Trump are spending almost $1.9 million on advertising in five swing states.

She’s spent millions on national television ads, including huge buys in the Olympics. Trump has yet to drop a dime, though several PACs are spending on his behalf. He continues to favor free Twitter posts.

As Donald Trump continues his stream of outrageous and disquieting statements, journalists must grapple with how to cover him — and if, or when, to abandon the rules of traditional reporting.

By the looks of Donald Trump’s Twitter feed, you might think he is running against CNN, not Hillary Clinton. On Monday afternoon Trump fired off six tweets in a row attacking CNN’s news coverage and accusing the network of being the “press shop for Hillary Clinton.”

NEW YORK (AP) — Jon Stewart has told Donald Trump’s supporters they can’t take America back, because they “don’t own” the country in a riff that mirrored his signature segments […]

CLEVELAND (AP) — A speechwriter for Donald Trump’s company said Wednesday she made a mistake and apologized for using passages from a 2008 Michelle Obama speech in the Republican party […]

Unlike Donald Trump, who has made his anti-media sentiments known, running mate Mike Pence, who was a leader in the persistent, but ultimately unsuccessful, effort in Congress to pass a shield law, has been a champion of freedom of the press. “As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press,” Pence once wrote, “A free press ensures the flow of information to the public.”

Donald Trump appeared briefly Monday night to introduce his wife Melania, but his backlit entrance to Queen’s “We Are the Champions” was reminiscent of a professional wrestler.

Margaret Sullivan says that Lesley Stahl blew an important chance to call Donald Trump out as a liar on his Iraq War position in her 60 Minutes interview Sunday. “Stahl — busy trying to herd the other rhetorical cats set loose in the interview — did not say what she should have,” she writes, kicking off what’s likely to be a healthy streak of meta-criticism on the media’s closer scrutiny (or lack thereof) of Trump’s claims.

With its glamour and famous catchphrase — “You’re fired” — The Apprentice, which debuted in 2004, was the ultimate showcase for Donald Trump’s self-styled image as a power-wielding mogul. But it also served as a prequel of sorts for his improbable next act as a presidential nominee, who next week will return to prime time as the ringmaster of the Republican National Convention.

Donald Trump, who has antagonized the news media and restricted access throughout his campaign, does not control the credentialing for this week’s Republican convention. That job is left to the Congressional Press Galleries. As a result, some news organizations will enjoy official entry to a Trump-led event for the first time in months.