Trump to NYT: You cancelled meeting, changed rules. NYT to Trump: Nope

[bigtree]

Clifford Levy @cliffordlevy (Assistant Masthead Editor, @nytimes)
@realDonaldTrump cancelled his meeting w/@nytimes. Our response: "We did not change the ground rules at all and made no attempt to."

Nicholas Kristof ‏@NickKristof 8m8 minutes ago
--it was Trump who tried to change the rules. Anyway, Mr. President-Elect, no reason to be scared of Times journalists!

Eugene Scott ‏@Eugene_Scott 5m5 minutes ago
'The Times said it only learned through Trump's tweets that the meeting was off.' http://cnnmon.ie/2gFTkZv @CNNMoney

[octoberlib]

1. I'vebeen wondering who the source is on all the stories

coming out on Trump's big off the record media meeting yesterday where he supposedly excoriated the press. Since the NY Post was the first one contacted, my guess is him.

[highplainsdem]

2. Details: Trump wanted the meeting changed to private, completely off the record, according to

NYT political correspondent Jonathan Mahler:

https://twitter.com/jonathanmahler/status/801037021368164352

NYT did not try to change ground rules. Trump did, asking for only a private meeting and no on-the-record segment, which NYT refused.

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

[mountain grammy]

4. Oh my, Trump's dishonest.

who would've known?

[bigtree]

17. complete and utterly thuggish lie

Keith Olbermann @KeithOlbermann
A complete and utterly thuggish lie from @realDonaldTrump, a complete and utter thug. #Resign

[tallahasseedem]

5. K&R

[blueseas]

6. K&R

We have to read twitter to find out news???

[barbtries]

7. yes, and we have to

read the response to trump's tweets to get the facts.


aargh.

[MrModerate]

8. What a freaking amateur Trump is . . . not to insult real amateurs n/t

[Ligyron]

10. IDK, he played the MSM for fools getting elected.

or maybe he was just lucky and them chasing ratings or some combo thereof.

I think there's an argument to be made that him controlling what press gets any access to his admin may be the start of something real un-American.

He wants to limit 1st amendment remedies.

Maybe start his own little media empire as we imagined he do once he lost the election. Make that the only official outlet for news of any kind regarding government since he now controls all three branches.

How the hell did this ever happen? I hope there's some serious behind the scenes efforts going on to overturn the results of his election somehow, someway.

But given how the leadership of the D Party that lead to this nightmare has been so willing to roll over like good blue dogs, I hold out little hope.

[MrModerate]

12. There's no legitimate mechanism to reverse the electoral result . . .

Unless and until the manifest unfitness -- to the point of mental illness -- that many of us ascribe to Trump is shared by everybody else. We are not there yet. We might never be there. Most Trumpsters are still gung-ho. An administration -- however dysfunctional and hunchbacked -- is coming together.

Trump is going to drive the family car off the lot and into traffic. And then?

[Ligyron]

18. and at that point all we get is Pence the theocratic, so it's a no-win nightmare.

Only thing half-way positive is getting some good comedy out of the situation cause the funny guys are on our side.

But the damage world-wide will be immeasurably disastrous at this point.

[sagetea]

9. This is ridiculous!

Now our news is a "He said, he said" kind of crap?

There is a little hope that with trump speaking all these delusionary stories that maybe, just maybe, the journalists will get angry enough and remember their passion that they went into journalism to begin with and start writing the truth.


Ho'
sage

[SHRED]

11. He's our Vladimir Putin

The press will heel eventually like the good little dogs they are.

[MrModerate]

13. Lots of money to be made in opposing Trump, I predict. n/t

[SHRED]

15. Losing access does not make them any money

Just sayin'.

[MrModerate]

19. Trump is an attention whore. He can't help himself.

He'll behave like a high-maintenance lover, all moody and difficult, but most of all needy. Access will be available.

[Snarkoleptic]

14. Trump agenda is best pursued under cover, so it's understandable why he's spooked by NYT.

Too bad they, and the rest of the corporate media, didn't do their jobs during the election.

[progressoid]

16. This is fucking embarrassing.