After President Trump took time during Thursday’s coronavirus press conference to criticize the blatantly biased media coverage of his administration’s response to the global pandemic, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd anchored an NBC News special report and decried how “the President’s own personal grievances seemed to dominate” the briefing.

“It amazes me when I read The Wall Street Journal, which is always so negative. It amazes me when I read The New York Times, it’s not even – I barely read it. You know, we don’t distribute it in the White House anymore, and the same thing with The Washington Post,” Trump declared during the presser.

The President particularly called out the effort by liberal media outlets to create negative narratives:

They use different slogans and different concepts for me almost every week, trying to catch something. Last week, it was, “Oh, chaos.” You see me, there’s no chaos. No chaos, I’m the one telling everybody to be calm. There’s no chaos in the White House. We have unbelievable professionals. It’s really – I think I came up with the term, I hope I came up with the term – but it is fake news. It’s more than fake news, it’s corrupt news.

He also called out reporters rushing to defend China from criticism: “They are siding with China, they are doing things they shouldn’t be doing.”

Minutes later, after the press conference concluded, Todd whined: “President Trump led it and you’ll be forgiven if you sort of have forgotten what were the news headlines out of it, the President’s own personal grievances seemed to dominate the large chunk of that.”

Turning to White House correspondent Kristen Welker a short time later, Todd further complained:

I have to say, that was candidate Donald Trump at times, it feels like the grievances are back. Whatever focus he was on being the war time president over the last couple of days seemed to go out the window. He seems to be just looking for reasons to be upset about things. What – and he certainly seems to not want to take any accountability on the field – on the testing debacle that clearly has held back our response.

The entire business model of the liberal media during Trump’s presidency has been “just looking for reasons to be upset about things.”

Here is a transcript of Trump’s March 19 remarks and Todd’s reaction: