Chuck Todd might want to talk with Joe Scarborough before crying about Trump's 'fake news' claim

Brett T. | 4:49 PM on March 10, 2018

BREAKING NEWS: President Donald Trump tweets and the press is butthurt.

Actually, there’s more to it than that, but you can tell it stings whenever Trump or any of his supporters use the term “fake news,” as Trump did Saturday afternoon:

In the first hours after hearing that North Korea’s leader wanted to meet with me to talk denuclearization and that missile launches will end, the press was startled & amazed.They couldn’t believe it. But by the following morning the news became FAKE.They said so what, who cares!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 10, 2018

CNN’s Brian Stelter, of course, took the bait.

"The news became FAKE" — this is revealing re: how he views coverage https://t.co/PH6qW08sZV

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 10, 2018

Awwwwww @brianstelter it must hurt…. Getting worked by @realDonaldTrump like that…. If @BarackObama had gotten a meeting with #kimjongun he would have been treated like #God. But he didnt… so @brianstelter gotta hate… bahahahahaha got'em https://t.co/9hJFDqeMFk

— Jason W. Ashley (@JasonWASHLEY1) March 10, 2018

So did Chuck Todd, host of MSNBCs “MTP Daily.”

Huh? He’s trying to level a critique that has no basis in fact, even using the loose set of parameters he sometimes uses to call something a “fact” or “fake” doesn’t apply on this. Now if he replaced “press” with “some West Wing staff,” there’d be some truth in this. https://t.co/2TVaxt6zUf

— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) March 10, 2018

Does Chuck Todd watch his own network? Wasn’t it MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough who the following morning reported that the announcement about North Korean nuclear talks was a painfully obvious ploy to distract from the Stormy Daniels scandal? A clever trick? A ruse?