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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Andrew Feinberg

Trump pays tribute after Ted Turner death by taking a shot at CNN: ‘Destroyed his baby’

President Donald Trump on Wednesday paid tribute to CNN founder turned philanthropist and environmentalist Ted Turner, who died at the age of 87, but couldn't resist getting in a shot along the way at the groundbreaking news organization he created.

Writing on Truth Social after news of Turner’s death was broken by CNN, Trump called the late billionaire “one of the Greats of All Time” while claiming he had been “personally devastated” in the wake of his decision to sell the cable network to Time Warner because the owners had taken “his ‘baby’ and destroyed it” by making it “woke and everything is is not all about.”

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