Acosta tells conservative media ‘there’s no guarantee you get to stay in power’

CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta warned conservative media that a future president could attack them the same way President Trump has attacked news organizations like his own.

{mosads}“To our friends in conservative media, Anderson, I say this: It is no guarantee that you get to stay in power forever,” Acosta told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “Another administration could come in and do the very same thing to them and say, ‘Well, Donald Trump did it. Guess what, we’re going to do it to you guys, too.’”

Trump has routinely lambasted outlets such as CNN, The New York Times and The Washington Post as “fake news.” He’s also branded the media as “the enemy of the people.” Trump also called Acosta “fake news” after refusing to answer his question during a White House press conference.

The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 17, 2017

There is great anger in our Country caused in part by inaccurate, and even fraudulent, reporting of the news. The Fake News Media, the true Enemy of the People, must stop the open & obvious hostility & report the news accurately & fairly. That will do much to put out the flame…

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2018

Meanwhile, Trump has praised Fox News since the beginning of his presidency, calling it “much more important in the United States than CNN.”

Congratulations to @FoxNews for being number one in inauguration ratings. They were many times higher than FAKE NEWS @CNN – public is smart!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 25, 2017

.@FoxNews is MUCH more important in the United States than CNN, but outside of the U.S., CNN International is still a major source of (Fake) news, and they represent our Nation to the WORLD very poorly. The outside world does not see the truth from them!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 25, 2017

Acosta said he wanted to “take the big-picture view” with his new book, “The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America.”

“What I wanted to do is sort of take the big-picture view on this and say, ‘Is this the kind of country we want to hand off to the next generation, where we’re now comfortable from here on out saying that the press is the enemy of the people and to our friends in conservative media?’” Acosta said.