Jared Kushner

File - In this Monday, Nov. 14, 2016 file photo, Jared Kushner, son-in-law of of President-elect Donald Trump walks from Trump Tower, in New York. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

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President Donald Trump has made no bones about his beef with the "out of control" media.

During a marathon press conference on Thursday, the president said the coverage of him was "dishonest," adding it speaks for the "special interests" and spews "nonsense."

"I turn on the TV, open the newspapers, and I see stories of chaos. Chaos," he said. "Yet it is the exact opposite. This administration is running like a fine-tuned machine, despite the fact that I can't get my cabinet approved."

The president is a showman, and some have speculated that making the media a foil is part of a production.

Yet the Wall Street Journal reports the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, complained about Trump's favorite target, CNN, during a meeting with an executive from parent company Time Warner Inc.

The Journal reports Kushner, son of a New Jersey real estate magnate who was put behind bars by then-U.S. Attorney Chris Christie, sat down with the company's executive vice president of marketing and communications, Gary Ginsberg.

According to the report, Kushner complained in general about CNN's coverage of his father-in-law, and in particular about some of its contributors, namely Van Jones, a former official from President Barack Obama's administration, and Ana Navarro, a GOP operative who has been critical of Trump.

Not mentioned in the report was the coverage by Jake Tapper, who has adopted a no-holds-barred approach to coverage of the administration.

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The president, meanwhile, slammed CNN during his Thursday presser, at turns lambasting the network and newspapers like The Washington Post and The New York Times for printing "fake news" while also decrying leaks of sensitive information from his White House.

A reporter asked Trump how the news could be fake if the leaks were real.

"Well, the leaks are real," he said. "You're the one that wrote about them and reported them, I mean, the leaks are real. You know what they said, you saw it and the leaks are absolutely real. The news is fake because so much of the news is fake."