In a news conference, he said: "The media is trying to attack our administration because they know we are following through on pledges we made and they're not happy about it."
"But a lot of people are happy about it."
"I turn on the TV, open the newspapers, I see stories of chaos. Yet it is the exact opposite. This administration is running like a fine-tuned machine."
Sky's US correspondent Cordelia Lynch described the attack as "unprecedented".
She said: "The White House has criticised media in past plenty of times, but this kind of attack on journalists is unprecedented."
He said: "Many of our nation's reporters will not tell you the truth. And will not treat the wonderful people of this country with the respect they deserve.
"I hope going forward things can be a little bit different and maybe get along a little bit better. Maybe it's not. That's ok too.
"Much of the media in Washington DC, along with New York, Los Angeles in particular speaks not for the people but for those profiting off a obviously very broken system.
"The press has become so dishonest and if we don't talk about it we are doing a tremendous disservice to the American people, because the press is out of control. The level of dishonesty is out of control.
"I am here to change the broken system so it serves their families well. I am talking about this entrenched power structure.
"Too often times the media distort. And some of the media's fantastic but much of it is not.
"But we're not going to let it happen."
Many of his comments focused on the media's stories about the administration's dealings with Russia, singling out the New York Times for a "discredited" front page.
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