An audience with the His President-electedness
by Tom Sullivan
The president-elect is not amused with his treatment in the (free) press. He let loose at an off-the-record gaggle of press bigwigs and anchors on Monday. "It was like a f–ing firing squad,” "a total disaster," one source told the New York Post:
“Trump started with [CNN chief] Jeff Zucker and said ‘I hate your network, everyone at CNN is a liar and you should be ashamed,’ ” the source said.Press executives thought they would be going to discuss press access. Instead they got a tantrum:
“Trump kept saying, ‘We’re in a room of liars, the deceitful dishonest media who got it all wrong.’ He addressed everyone in the room calling the media dishonest, deceitful liars. He called out Jeff Zucker by name and said everyone at CNN was a liar, and CNN was [a] network of liars,” the source said.A source told Politico the meeting was less intense than the Post account, but added that Trump did complain about unflattering photos NBC used, "'this picture of me,' as he made a face with a double chin." (Per NPR's source, Trump described NBC as the worst.)