CNN took a beating online this week, as various commentators called out the network for its participation in the White House Correspondents' Dinner (WHCD) after reports emerged that its "leadership was furious" over comments President Donald Trump made attacking its journalists.

After Trump mocked CNN’s Kaitlan Collins in his WHCA speech, the network has issued the statement supporting its journalists.

President Donald Trump used Friday's rescheduled White House Correspondents' Dinner to address his complicated relationship with the press corps, acknowledging his own sensitivities before taking aim at journalists Anderson Cooper,

The Daily Show host proceeded to play Collins if she took a leaf out of Trump’s book. “Hey, Tubs,” he said. “You look pretty today. The Big Beautiful Bill took a million children off of food assistance. Why are your hands so f---ed-up?”

From CNN to Fox News: How the networks handled President Donald Trump's primetime address to the nation on July 16.

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville on Friday criticized major television networks for not airing President Trump’s speech on election security the previous night, saying that it was a mistake for CNN,