[Hoot Gibson]

Trump's war on the media continues unabated. Trump's campaign consists of one sideshow after another. He is either unable or unwilling to focus on his opponent. Is he trying to lose, or can he just not help himself?

[url=http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/291377-trump-im-running-against-media-not-clinton]Trump: I’m running against media, not Clinton[/url]

Donald Trump on Saturday said that his true opponent in the general election is the media.

“I’m not running against Crooked Hillary [Clinton], I’m running against the crooked media,” Trump said at a rally in Fairfield, Conn. “That’s what I’m running against. I’m not running against Crooked Hillary.”
Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, has repeatedly lashed out at media that he calls “dishonest” over the course of his campaign.

Earlier Saturday, he bashed The New York Times after a report came out in which sources characterized Trump as “sullen” and struggling to recover in light of lagging poll numbers.

He renewed those attacks on the Times at the rally Saturday, saying he’s considering revoking the paper's credentials to cover his rallies.

“I’ll tell you, in particular, lately, we have a newspaper that’s failing badly, it's losing a lot of money, it's gonna be out of business very soon: The New York Times,” he said.

Trump blasted the use of anonymous sources in the Times report, saying, “I don’t think they have any names."

He added: “They never call me. It’s going to hell.”

Trump continued, saying, “Maybe what we’ll do, we’ll start taking their press credentials away from them.”

Trump has revoked the press credentials of a number of media outlets including Politico, The Washington Post and The Huffington Post.

But The Washington Post, Trump said, has “been much nicer” recently and he may reinstate its credentials.

Trump also blasted CNN for criticizing him for calling President Obama “the founder of [the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria],” a comment that the mogul later said was sarcastic, “but not that sarcastic.”

“CNN is so disgusting,” he said. “And, by the way, their ratings are going down big league. You know why? Because I refuse to be interviewed. And I get high ratings. What can I say?

“These people are so dishonest."