In a pair of tweets posted Monday afternoon, President Donald Trump appeared to suggest the U.S. government should sponsor its own news network — a notion some are calling “propaganda.”

After complaining about CNN’s “unfair” coverage and claiming that it has “very little competition” outside of the United States, the president declared that “something has to be done.”

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That “something,” he wrote, includes “the possibility of the United States starting our own Worldwide Network to show the World [sic] the way we really are, GREAT!”

….and false way. Something has to be done, including the possibility of the United States starting our own Worldwide Network to show the World the way we really are, GREAT! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 26, 2018

Some noted that Voice of America, the government’s overseas news network, already exists.

“It’d be like America’s voice, broadcast around the world,” The Daily Beast‘s Lachlan Markay tweeted. “Hey, we could even call it…Voice of America.”

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https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/1067143397641719814

Others still noted that it sounds a lot like state-sponsored propaganda news.

“He wants ‘us’ to start ‘our own’ worldwide network to compete with CNN,” actress Marsha Warfield tweeted. “Scared yet?”

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He wants "us" to start "our own" worldwide network to compete with CNN.

Scared yet?

If not, why not? https://t.co/IJpRe03FoL — Marsha Warfield (@MarshaWarfield) November 26, 2018

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Check out more responses below:

President Trump in favor of government-run propaganda https://t.co/7exUI3WH7E — Evan Rosenfeld (@Evan_Rosenfeld) November 26, 2018

Ah, yes. State TV. What could possibly go wrong? https://t.co/5eu4VXBKAN — Mark Lazerus (@MarkLazerus) November 26, 2018

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How great are we when our "leader" can't even use punctuation correctly? https://t.co/jwQGK56JDt — Tyler Kloster (@docktorvenkman) November 26, 2018

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Right, Hitler did this https://t.co/2NPA009Ev2 — Sandi Bachom (@sandibachom) November 26, 2018

How @VOANews handle this? Do they issuing a press release saying they exist? https://t.co/xG3jpYFgiZ — Joseph Lawler (@josephlawler) November 26, 2018

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First Space Force, now this. @VOANews is a thing already btw. https://t.co/BpweyvsfFz — rabia O'chaudry (@rabiasquared) November 26, 2018

This network will be a 24/7 Sábado Gigante for white people. Like Fox but with even more beauty queens. https://t.co/btivHuRaIG — Adrian (@blagojevism) November 26, 2018

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