"Network news has become so partisan, distorted and fake that licenses must be challenged and, if appropriate, revoked," he tweeted . It's not just this threatening tweet -- or his long crusade against "fake" news -- that suggests Trump doesn't get that the media isn't working for him. According to Freedom House , a US-based non-governmental organization that studies freedom of the press around the world, Kuwait's press freedom status is only "partly free" -- with a 59 out of 100 overall press freedom score. There's literally nothing Trump could say about the media or do in regard to the media that those supporters would deem a bridge too far. But don't support threats -- even empty ones -- to get rid of or restrict the free press.

Source: CNN October 11, 2017 17:03 UTC