‘I Laugh at Them All’: Trump Goes After ‘Total Mess’ NY Times and Editor Dean Baquet
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President Donald Trump attacked the New York Times yet again on Friday, this time focusing mostly on executive editor Dean Baquet and claiming “he has long been considered one of the dumbest men in the world of journalism.”
It’s unclear what spurred on these particular tweets, but earlier Friday night Trump mockingly said Baquet “is to be seriously respected” because “he has long been considered one of the dumbest men in the world of journalism, and he became Executive Editor of the Failing New York Times.”
He trashed Baquet and the Times and even accused the paper of being “willing to write anything, even if not truthful.”
“I laugh at them all,” the president added.
.@deanbaquet is to be seriously respected. He has long been considered one of the dumbest men in the world of journalism, and he became Executive Editor of the Failing New York Times. Not easy to do. He has given up on “figuring Trump out”. Called it all wrong from the….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 22, 2020
….beginning, was forced to apologize (Fake News!) after the seriously wrong call of the 2016 Election, and is now willing to write anything, even if not truthful. He laughs at his boss, Publisher A.G. Sulzberger, and I laugh at them all. The @nytimes is a total mess!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 22, 2020
