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The first public statement President Trump made after being briefed on Monday morning’s terror bombing in the Port Authority bus terminal was to lash out at the New York Times over claims in a Sunday report that ​he spends several hours a day glued to the TV.

“Another false story, this time in the Failing @nytimes, that I watch 4-8 hours of television a day – Wrong! Also, I seldom, if ever, watch CNN or MSNBC, both of which I consider Fake News. I never watch Don Lemon, who I once called the ‘dumbest man on television!’ Bad Reporting,” Trump tweeted at 9:17 a.m.

It was just shy of two hours after 27-year-old Akayed Ullah allegedly launched an ISIS-inspired attack with a pipe bomb inside the Port Authority bus terminal — and an hour after White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted at 8: 13 a.m. that “.@POTUS has been briefed on the explosion in New York City.”

Three victims were injured in the attack, as was the bomber himself, officials said.

Trump was responding to a Times article from the day before that was being discussed on both MSNBC and CNN this morning ​citing White House insiders who reported the president spends “at least four hours a day, and sometimes as much as twice that” planted in front of the boob tube, sometimes watching on mute as he seethes over negative coverage of himself.

Trump has made his hatred for MSNBC and CNN clear in recent months, as he has heaped praise on Fox News — particularly morning show “Fox and Friends.”

His position on Lemon appears to have shifted in recent years — Trump called him very professional two years ago.

“Great interview tonight @donlemon – very professionally done. @CNN,” he tweeted Dec. 9, 2015.

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