US President Donald Trump has launched a scathing attack on the media during a rally marking 100 days in office.
He told supporters in Pennsylvania that he was keeping "one promise after another", dismissing criticism as "fake news" by "out of touch" journalists.
Mr Trump decided to skip the White House Correspondents' Dinner - the first US leader to miss the event since an injured Ronald Reagan in 1981
Mr Trump's approval ratings hover at around the 40% mark - believed to be lower than any other president at the 100-day marker.
At the rally in Harrisburg, the president said the media should be given "a big, fat, failing grade" over their coverage of his achievements during his first 100 days and told the cheering crowd he was "thrilled to be more than 100 miles from Washington".
He quipped that at the same time "a large group of Hollywood actors and Washington media are consoling themselves" at the correspondents' dinner "that will be very boring".
Until now, late president Ronald Reagan in 1981 was the last US leader to miss the annual dinner, when he was recovering from an assassination attempt.
Addressing the journalists and celebrities at the dinner in Washington, Reuters White House correspondent Jeff Mason defended his profession, saying it was "our job to report on facts, and to hold leaders accountable".
"We are not 'fake news'. We are not failing news organisations, and we are not the enemy of the American people," Mason said.
Turning to his election pledges, Mr Trump said the first 100 days had been "very exciting and very productive".
He said he was "delivering every single day" by:
Mr Trump also said the administration of Barack Obama had resulted in "a mess", stressing that he was ready for "great battles to come and we will win in every case".
On climate change, Mr Trump said "a big decision" would be taken within the next two weeks.
He earlier described climate change as a hoax, vowing to pull the US out of the Paris Agreement .
But despite Mr Trump's claim to be keeping his promises, he has failed to start construction on the wall he plans along the US-Mexico border - or to get Mexico to pay for it.
"We'll build the wall, folks, don't even worry about it," the president said.
On another campaign promise, to label China a currency manipulator, he said now was not "the best tim
Ahead of the speech, tens of thousands took part in protests across the US against the Trump administration's stance on climate change. The People's Climate March was timed to coincide with the 100th day of his presidency.
In Washington, the demonstrators marched from the US Capitol to the White House.
Organisers said they wanted to put the climate debate firmly on the agenda for next year's midterm elections.
89 visitors
So Trump goes to war with the media. I am sure that worked when he was a real estate agent in the greater New York/New Jersey area. However now he has media looking at him from all over the world. Now he has REAL investigative reporters who have brought down game as big as him before and they can run him to ground if he dares them to do so and that is what he is doing. He is daring the very best media in the world to tear open his closet door and pull out the skeletons rattling around in there out and you can be certain no person like him has never got to the place he has without tearing more then a few people down to skin and bones. More then a few people willing to tell their story. Mr Trump, if you take on the nation press and the international press by constantly calling them fake news, all they will keep doing is constantly digging and digging and presenting the real news until your sand castle falls down. One of the greatest thing our Founding Fathers came up with was the idea of the Free Press and no matter how many times you belittle them or insult them to your base, remember that they don't just exist here in America. There is a Free Press in many other nations around the world and they will pick up the slack. They will take you apart because they are a whole lot bigger and better then you and even your most hardcore followers. You fucked with the wrong group of people this time Don.
Mr Trump you lie and lie and lie and when you are challenged on your lies you claim it is "fake news", but after awhile even your most diehard supporter is going to start to wonder about the totality of the number of times you have to claims "fake news" and begin to wonder. Especially since their lives are not getting better, but worse and the rich that that know are getting much richer and all of the promises you made to help them seem to have been puffs of smoke.
You see Trump there is a funny thing about the kind of lies that you yell out like a barker at a very cheap carnival going through town or a man selling bottles of secret special medicine that will cure everything from arthritis to warts (and is 40 proof). If that man sticks around town long enough then people realize that the have been fooled and taken in by a huckster and that is all you are Trump. Just a plain old, low level lying, carnival, phony medicine show, huckster and it's time for you to start moving on, because people are wising up to your lies.
Please Trump, do let the door hit you on the ass on your way out.
Waaaawaaaaa, everybody is always pickin' on me...
Trumps new theme song....Credit to the Coasters and Charlie Brown.