Sunday morning, President-elect Donald Trump sent several tweets regarding the New York Times’ “dishonest” coverage of him.
Wow, the @nytimes is losing thousands of subscribers because of their very poor and highly inaccurate coverage of the "Trump phenomena"
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 13, 2016
The @nytimes sent a letter to their subscribers apologizing for their BAD coverage of me. I wonder if it will change – doubt it?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 13, 2016
The @nytimes states today that DJT believes "more countries should acquire nuclear weapons." How dishonest are they. I never said this!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 13, 2016
This is not the first time that Trump has voiced his displeasure with the Times, and it probably won’t be the last. Without missing a beat, reporters pounced on it and decried it.
This is the President-elect of the United States https://t.co/1VRfBfNzSO
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) November 13, 2016
When does petulance count as a virtue? https://t.co/l5LSmt89zD
— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) November 13, 2016
It's anybody's guess what kind of a president Trump will be! https://t.co/8SGK65aDbQ
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) November 13, 2016
The war on the press: In a Banana Republic style, the president-elect wakes up on Sunday to attack the country's most important newspaper https://t.co/bD9Z775O6K
— Rosental (@Rosental) November 13, 2016
But Ari Fleischer, former press secretary to George W. Bush, reminded the Left of the kind of attacks President Obama made on right-leaning news outlets and commentators after his initial inauguration in 2009.
Many reporters who object to this tweet are the same people who were fine with the Obama 2009 attack on Rush Limbaugh and Fox News. https://t.co/ySVcOjNo7f
— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) November 13, 2016
There seems to be a lot of amnesia going on in the press corps this week.
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