I have a cunning plan...

President Trump's constant categorisation of the media as "dishonest" and disseminating "fake news" is clearly part of his strategy to supplant the traditional media as the public's first port of call when they want to know what's going on.  So what he hopes is that instead of your first question being "what does the Daily (whatever) say about it?", it will become "what does Trump say about it?".  That way he will be able to control the agenda.  He's a buffoon - but a clever one.