Donald Trump meets with the “failing” New York Times, takes back much of what he campaigned on Donald Trump meets on the record with the Times and leaves everyone wondering, What does he actually stand for?
Onlookers watch as President-elect Donald Trump shakes hands with a security guard as he leaves the New York Times building following a meeting, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)(Credit: AP)While the heads of broadcast news and cable news networks agreed to meet on Monday with President-elect Donald Trump off the record at his New York high-rise, The New York Times did not. Yet on Tuesday the newspaper that Trump had often maligned was still granted a sit-down interview with him on Tuesday — after he first tweeted otherwise! — that was on the record and quite revealing, according to many of the reporters in the room who live tweeted the event.
New NYT statement: "the President Elect's meeting with The Times is on again" cnnmon.ie/2gc0Hmf
Here are some tweets by New York Times reporters who documented what Trump said about apparent conflicts of interest:
And Times staffers also tweeted what Trump had to say about climate change:
Yet Trump’s own past tweets on the matter of climate change have taken quite a different tone:
President Obama was terrible on @60Minutes tonight. He said CLIMATE CHANGE is the most important thing, not all of the current disasters!
And here’s what Trump himself had to say about The New York Times on Tuesday:
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