It’s not exactly news that President Trump and CNN despise each other. But then tensions between the two really heated up over the weekend.

In case you missed it, here’s what happened at a press conference in London on Friday. Trump refused to take a question from CNN’s Jim Acosta since he represented “fake news.” Prime Minister Theresa May looked on with an embarrassed smile. Awkward!

Not only that, but Trump also railed against NBC as well, after reporter Kristen Welker asked if criticizing NATO allies helped Vladimir Putin.

Trump didn’t care for that question. He shot back at NBC, too.

“That’s such dishonest reporting. Of course it happens to be NBC, which is possibly worse than CNN.”

Now that put Fox News reporter, John Roberts, in a rather thorny situation. Here he was, a reporter from a network the President favors, but also feeling the need to defend colleagues whom he respected. So here’s what he told Harris Faulkner on Fox News Outnumbered:

Roberts also issued a statement on the kerfuffle, which CNN’s Eric Wemple retweeted:

Here is the statement from Fox News's John Roberts, who was selected by Trump to ask a question after CNN's Jim Acosta was dissed. pic.twitter.com/Wp4PDIP4xg

— ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) July 13, 2018

Well, that wasn’t good enough for Matt Dornic, also from CNN:

Nice try, @johnrobertsFox. Your omission is glaring and your compliment backhanded. Next time try and show some class in the moment. And in your statement.

How did John Roberts reply to Dornic? By doing this:

Ouch. pic.twitter.com/azLmp151Be

— Matt Dornic (@mdornic) July 14, 2018

Oh, wait. But there’s more. Because on Saturday, CNN’s Jake Tapper announced that the White House canceled National Security Adviser John Bolton’s scheduled Sunday appearance on “State of the Union:”

Update: @AmbJohnBolton had been locked in for tomorrow’s @CNNSOTU. Then the president attacked CNN during his UK presser, and our WH correspondent tried to ask a question. We are told Amb. Bolton remains fully prepared to do the interview but the White House has canceled it.

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 14, 2018

Now if you know anything about Bolton, you know that he has no fear of the media. So why did the White House cancel his visit?

In short, according to Sarah Sanders, a “CNN reporter disrespected” President Trump and Prime Minister May, and so the White House was no longer going to reward “bad behavior.”

Did she say bad behavior? Like you would say about a five-year-old?

Yep, she sure did. So now the WH is going to ‘reprioritize’ TV appearances of administration officials.

Bolton and Tapper. Credit: CNN.

However, John Bolton is still appearing on ABC’s This Week with Jonathan Karl on Sunday morning. Apparently ABC is not on the President’s doo-doo list — not yet, anyway.

But CNN, and Jim Acosta in particular, have made themselves gadflies to the President for quite some time.

For example, in January Acosta directed some pretty racially tinged questions at the President:

“Did you say that you want more people to come in from Norway? Did you say that you wanted more people from Norway? Is that true Mr. President?”

Trump replied to Acosta, and then signaled the end of the conference:

“I want them to come in from everywhere… everywhere. Thank you very much everybody.”

But Acosta wasn’t done:

“Just Caucasian or white countries, sir? Or do you want people to come in from other parts of the world… people of color?”

Whereupon Trump pointed at Acosta and ordered:

“OUT!”

Acosta took to Twitter to complain about the treatment he got from POTUS:

When I tried to follow up on this in the Oval Office, Trump told me to get “out.”

Well, cry me a river. It’s one thing for reporters to respectfully ask a President some pointed questions. After all, that’s what they’re supposed to do.

It’s another to fire questions at him like a barking seal waiting for a fish to drop. Especially if those questions are hostile and loaded.

You may remember that a little over a year ago, the Shorenstein Center at the Harvard Kennedy School, which focuses on the media, published a survey on news coverage of Trump after his first 100 days. It was no surprise that that bulk of media reporting was negative. And guess which network produced the most negative coverage? Points to you if you said CNN. They were tied with NBC for the most negative news coverage of the President — 93% of stories were negative.

So it’s no surprise that CNN might not be able to hold interviews with members of the administration anymore. As my late mother used to say when I was a kid, “You made your bed. Now sleep in it.”