CNN host Chris Cuomo slammed the Trump administration on Wednesday for its failure to condemn the hostility Trump supporters showed toward the media during a rally earlier this week, asserting that the White House only supports free speech when it likes what's being said.

"What speech do they support at the White House?" Cuomo asked on CNN's "Cuomo Primetime," noting that White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has justified calling the press "scum," "a stain on America" and "the enemy of the people."

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"They support all that as free speech. But they don’t support free speech when they don’t like it. That’s when they disinvite journalists and they shrink away from interviews."

Cuomo's statement came a day after Trump supporters showed overt hostility toward journalists, particularly CNN reporter and frequent Trump target Jim Acosta, during a rally the president held in Tampa, Florida. In videos posted online, supporters can be heard saying "CNN sucks" and "stop lying."

Sanders on Wednesday said the White House "certainly supports a free press" during a daily White House briefing. She also said the administration supports "free speech" and that it thinks freedom of the press and freedom of speech go hand in hand.

Trump has repeatedly attacked the press since his days on the campaign trail. On Sunday, he said journalists were "very unpatriotic" for reporting on government affairs.

"I will not allow our great country to be sold out by anti-Trump haters in the dying newspaper industry," Trump tweeted. "No matter how much they try to distract and cover it up, our country is making great progress under my leadership and I will never stop fighting for the American people!"