In my opinion, they’re really corrupt and they’re illegal, what they do is illegal,” the president said in remarks at the Justice Department.

Trump launched an attack on media while speaking at the DOJ, suggesting CNN and MSNBC are "arms of the Democrat Party" and their coverage of him is "illegal."

But maybe Mr Trump believes that only through such tough stands could he have “stopped all government censorship and brought back free speech in America”, as he put it in his address to Congress on March 4th.