On his first full day as president, Trump visited the CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. In his remarks, Trump promised to support the intelligence community. But then he went too far in blaming the media for distorting his past statements about U.S. intelligence.
Trump, Jan. 21: "And the reason you're my first stop is that, as you know, I have a running war with the media. They are among the most dishonest human beings on Earth. (Laughter and applause.) And they sort of made it sound like I had a feud with the intelligence community. And I just want to let you know, the reason you're the number-one stop is exactly the opposite — exactly."
Trump, Oct. 9, 2016: "But I notice, anytime anything wrong happens, they like to say the Russians are — [Clinton] doesn't know if it's the Russians doing the hacking. Maybe there is no hacking. But they always blame Russia."
Trump, Dec. 11, 2016: "They have no idea if it's Russia or China or somebody. It could be somebody sitting in a bed some place. I mean, they have no idea."
Trump, Dec. 9, 2016: "These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction."
An annotated transcript of the president's remarks at the CIA can be found on FactCheck.org's transcript homepage.