President Donald Trump is pulling no punches about the TV hosts he loves to hate, bashing Stephen Colbert, Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon as the worst of the worst.

Colbert, he told TIME magazine, is 'a no-talent guy ... There's nothing funny about what he says. And what he says is filthy. And you have kids watching.'

The 'Late Show' host was pilloried this month – except in anti-Trump corners – for saying on the air that Trump's mouth is good for nothing except 'being Vladimir Putin's c**k holster.'

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All-in attack: Donald Trump said of Colbert that he is 'a no-talent guy ... There's nothing funny about what he says. And what he says is filthy.

'Chained lunatic': CNN New Day host Chris Cuomo got both barrels from the president: 'He's like a boiler ready to explode, the level of hatred.'

CNN in his sights: Trump called Don Lemon, who anchors CNN at 10pm weeknights, 'possibly the dumbest person in broadcasting', and said that while 'I love Jeffrey Lord', the other people on panels with him are 'eight unknown killers'

DONALD TRUMP THE CRITIC ...on Don Lemon This Don Lemon who's perhaps the dumbest person in broadcasting, Don Lemon at night it's like – sometimes they'll have a guest who by mistake will say something good. And they'll start screaming, we're going to commercial. They cut him off ...on Chris Cuomo Chris Cuomo, he's sitting there like a chained lunatic. He's like a boiler ready to explode, the level of hatred ...on Stephen Colbert Colbert is pictured during a taping of the Late Show on February 22, 2017 You see a no-talent guy like Colbert. There's nothing funny about what he says. And what he says is filthy. And you have kids watching. And it only builds up my base. It only helps me, people like him. The guy was dying. By the way they were going to take him off television, then he started attacking me and he started doing better. But his show was dying. I've done his show. … But when I did his show, which by the way was very highly rated. It was high—highest rating. The highest rating he's ever had. ...on Joe Scarborough Scarborough used to treat me great. But because I don't do interviews and stuff and want to … He went the other way. Which is fine. He's got some problems. But I don't watch the show anymore. It drives him crazy ...on the printed press Washington Post, New York Times, they're really, really dishonest. You people are quite dishonest in all fairness... newspapers and things, I glance at them. They're really dishonest. I mean they're really dishonest ...on Fox News A man walks under the Fox News ticker displayed at News Corp headquarters in New York in February 2014 I do watch Fox in the morning, and their ratings have gone through the roof because everyone knows I'm watching Fox. But they're pleasant. And if I do something wrong they report on it. I don't mean they – if I do something wrong. But it's really, honestly it's the most accurate ...on TiVo One of the great inventions of all time ...on Jeffrey Lord and CNN panels Poor Jeffrey Lord. I love Jeffrey Lord. But sometimes he's sitting there with eight unknown killers that nobody ever heard of. And CNN actually is not doing nearly as well as others. They're all doing well because of me. But it's not doing as well as others that are doing better actually Advertisement

The president said he thinks the off-color oral sex banter will ultimately backfire on liberals.

'It only builds up my base,' he boasted. 'It only helps me.'

But Trump saved his harshest verdict for CNN foils Cuomo and Lemon.

Cuomo, who co-hosts the early morning 'New Day' program, is 'sitting there like a chained lunatic,' the president said.

'He's like a boiler ready to explode, the level of hatred. And the entire – you know, the entire CNN platform is that way.'

Lemon, he jabbed, is 'perhaps the dumbest person in broadcasting.'

'Don Lemon at night, it's like – sometimes they'll have a guest who by mistake will say something good. And they'll start screaming, 'We're going to commercial.' They cut him off. Remember?'

He also said 'I love Jeffrey Lord' of his prominent CNN supporter - but described him as being on panels 'sitting there with eight unknown killers that nobody ever heard of'.

CNN punched back on Thursday, saying the comments from the Oval Office 'are beneath the dignity of the office of the President.'

The two cable news outlets at the far ends of the ideological spectrum, as expected, ended up on Trump's nice and naughty lists.

'Fox treats me very fairly,' he said. 'MSNBC is ridiculous. It's just bad.'

He added: 'Scarborough used to treat me great. But because I don't do interviews and stuff and want to... he went the other way.

'Which is fine. He's got some problems.'

The president didn't limit his media criticism to television, blasting some of the same newspapers he has allowed to interview him since taking office.

'Washington Post, New York Times, they're really, really dishonest,' he said.

'Ridiculous': Trump criticized the channel MSNBC and said of its morning star Joe Scarborough: 'He's got some problems.'

No quarter: Trump used an interview with Time magazine to attack a series of TV figures, who he watches on a new 60 inch television installed in his private dining room. He was also interviewed by NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt on Thursday

They get me: 'Fox treats me very fairly,' the president said of the network which shows Fox & Friends from 6am to 9am

Even TIME, whose reporters he was speaking to, wasn't let off the hook.

'You people are quite dishonest in all fairness,' he said.

He made the comments in an interview with Time, whose reporters and editor he invited to dinner in the White House residence and showed them round other parts of the building.

In the course of the tour he took them to the newly-redecorated executive dining room, where he has had a 60 inch television installed, and used TiVo to show clips of testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee last week.

He enthused: 'This is one of the great inventions of all time - TiVo.'

The president has had a tortured relationship with the journalists who cover him since long before he entered politics.

But his campaign was a daily slugfest between candidate Trump and his traveling press corps, much of which he referred to as 'the fake news.'

Even as the nation's highest elected official, he hasn't let up against the 'incompetent, dishonest' press.

'The media,' he told 10,000 fans last month during a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania rally, 'deserves a very, very big, fat fat failing grade' for its coverage of his first 100 days in office.

He singled out 'the failing New York Times,' saying its poor financial management has forced it to shrink its print edition past the point where 'pretty soon they'll only be on the Internet.'

'The paper's getting smaller and smaller. Did you ever notice?' Trump asked. 'It's starting to look like a comic book.'