Donald Trump hits out at the press in another anti-media tirade

Just hours after revealing he had a meeting with the New York Times, Donald Trump has gone on another anti-media tirade.

The president claimed that the media was ‘driven insane by their Trump Derangement Syndrome’ and claimed it was journalists who put lives at risk.

His tweets came after the Times’ publisher, AG Sulzberger, revealed he met with Trump because he worried the president’s anti-media rhetoric was putting journalists’ lives in danger.

‘When the media – driven insane by their Trump Derangement Syndrome – reveals internal deliberations of our government, it puts the lives of many, not just journalists, at risk!’ Trump tweeted on Sunday afternoon.

Just hours after revealing he had a meeting with the New York Times, Donald Trump has gone on another anti-media tirade

His tirade came after New York Times publisher AG Sulzberger revealed he met with Trump because he worried the president’s anti-media rhetoric was putting journalists’ lives in danger

‘Very unpatriotic! Freedom of the press also comes with a responsibility to report the news accurately.’

Trump then went on to claim that ’90 percent’ of the media coverage surrounding his administration ‘is negative despite the tremendously positive results we are achieving’.

‘It’s no surprise that confidence in the media is at an all time low!’ Trump continued. ‘I will not allow out great country to be sold out by anti-Trump haters in the dying newspaper industry.’

‘No matter how much they try to distract and cover it up, our country is making great progress under my leadership and I will never stop fighting for the American people!’

Trump then called out the New York Times by name as well as the Washington Post, which is owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.

‘The failing New York Times and the Amazon Washington Post do nothing but write bad stories even on very positive achievements – and they will never change!’ he wrote.

Sulzberger said his point of attending was ‘to raise concerns about the president’s deeply troubling anti-press rhetoric’

Trump’s tirade took on a far different tone than he struck this morning after revealing he had a ‘very good and interesting meeting’ with Sulzberger at the White House

Trump’s tirade took on a far different tone than he struck Sunday morning after revealing he had a ‘very good and interesting meeting’ with Sulzberger at the White House.

The president said he spent most of the time ‘talking about the vast amounts of Fake News being put out by the media’.

Trump then said it was ‘sad’ that Fake News, a term he coined, has ‘morphed into the phrase “Enemy of the People”‘.

But the president himself has called the media the ‘enemy of the people’ on a number of occasions, saying it again just weeks after five Capital Gazette journalists were murdered in Annapolis, Maryland.

Sulzberger said he told Trump directly that he ‘thought that his language was not just divisive but increasingly dangerous’.

‘I told him that although the phrase “fake news” is untrue and harmful, I am far more concerned about his labeling journalists “the enemy of the people,”‘ Sulzberg said in a statement.

According to a Times’ spokeswoman, the meeting was meant to be off-the-record but Sulzberger had decided to reply based on the ‘detailed notes’ he took with editorial page editor, James Bennet, who was also at the meeting.

The meeting took place on July 20 at the White House’s request, the spokeswoman added.

Sulzberger said that he believed Trump’s language would lead to violence against journalists and was threatening the concept of a free press.

‘I made clear repeatedly that I was not asking for him to soften his attacks on The Times if he felt our coverage was unfair,’ he continued.

‘Instead, I implored him to reconsider his broader attacks on journalism, which I believe are dangerous and harmful to our country.’

The president has called the Times a slew of insults, and ‘failing’ at least a dozen times despite the paper reporting an increase in subscribers and total revenue

Trump has been known to refer to media coverage that portrays him negatively as ‘fake news’.

The president has also called the Times a slew of insults, and ‘failing’ at least a dozen times.

However, the Times has 2.3 million paid digital subscriptions, up 63.4 percent from one year earlier, according to Fortune.

It is also the second-most widely circulated paper in the country behind The Wall Street Journal.

Additionally, the Times reported back in February that total revenue for 2017 increased by eight percent to $1.7billion.

Following his media tirade, Trump once again began to complain about special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation

Sulzberger became publisher in January, replacing his father, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr, who had been publisher since 1992.

Following his media tirade, Trump once again began to complain about special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

‘There is No Collusion! The Robert Mueller Rigged Witch Hunt, headed now by 17 (increased from 13, including an Obama White House lawyer) Angry Democrats, was started by a fraudulent Dossier, paid for by Crooked Hillary and the DNC. Therefore, the Witch Hunt is an illegal Scam!’ he tweeted.

Mueller, it should be noted, is a Republican. He was appointed by US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, a Republican who was nominated by Trump.

READ THE NEW YORK TIMES’ STATEMENT IN FULL

Earlier this month, A.G. received a request from the White House to meet with President Trump. This was not unusual; there has been a long tradition of New York Times publishers holding such meetings with presidents and other public figures who have concerns about coverage.

On July 20th, A.G. went to the White House, accompanied by James Bennet, who oversees the editorial page of The Times. Mr. Trump’s aides requested that the meeting be off the record, which has also been the practice for such meetings in the past.

But with Mr. Trump’s tweet this morning, he has put the meeting on the record, so A.G. has decided to respond to the president’s characterization of their conversation, based on detailed notes A.G. and James took.

Statement of A.G. Sulzberger, Publisher, The New York Times:

My main purpose for accepting the meeting was to raise concerns about the president’s deeply troubling anti-press rhetoric.

I told the president directly that I thought that his language was not just divisive but increasingly dangerous.

I told him that although the phrase ‘fake news’ is untrue and harmful, I am far more concerned about his labeling journalists ‘the enemy of the people.’ I warned that this inflammatory language is contributing to a rise in threats against journalists and will lead to violence.

I repeatedly stressed that this is particularly true abroad, where the president’s rhetoric is being used by some regimes to justify sweeping crackdowns on journalists. I warned that it was putting lives at risk, that it was undermining the democratic ideals of our nation, and that it was eroding one of our country’s greatest exports: a commitment to free speech and a free press.

Throughout the conversation I emphasized that if President Trump, like previous presidents, was upset with coverage of his administration he was of course free to tell the world. I made clear repeatedly that I was not asking for him to soften his attacks on The Times if he felt our coverage was unfair. Instead, I implored him to reconsider his broader attacks on journalism, which I believe are dangerous and harmful to our country.

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