President Donald Trump tweeted that "the Fake News should listen to what [Jerry Falwell] had to say." | Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Trump: Fake news media is 'out of control'

President Donald Trump railed against “fake news” Monday after Jerry Falwell Jr. defended the president’s comments on the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

“Jerry Falwell of Liberty University was fantastic on @foxandfriends,” Trump tweeted. “The Fake News should listen to what he had to say. Thanks Jerry!”


Falwell Jr., the university’s president, went on Fox to praise Trump’s comments on white supremacists and counter-protesters that clashed in Charlottesville.

“I think he was very clear who the culprits were, because he called out the Nazis, the white supremacists, the KKK members by name,” Falwell Jr. said. “He didn’t call out the ones who committed violence on the other side by name — he never mentioned Antifa, he made it clear that there was no moral equivalency between the two.”

Falwell Jr. also said that, as someone who knows Trump well, he could attest that the president “does not have a racist bone in his body.”

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Trump also posted another tweet five minutes later to thank a follower that defended him, while using it as another opportunity to further his point.

“Thank you,” Trump said to the account admiring how he never backs down from people trying to take him down, “the very dishonest Fake News Media is out of control!"

