The Trump White House has issued multiple attacks on the Rupert Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal, declaring their transcript of a interview with Donald Trump “fake news.” And the point of contention, in an 8,500 word interview is a single letter.
This came after Trump prattled on for an hour and left people in meetings hanging because he was having so much “fun” in his interview, firing off statements like an addled chipmunk. Trump actually went out of his interview with the Journal declaring that he wanted to do “one of these” every month.
But then Trump’s interview was published, and someone noticed that most of it was simply nuts.
Mr. Trump: Just – and so – so I was successful, successful, successful. I was always the best athlete, people don’t know that. But I was successful at everything I ever did and then I run for president, first time -- first time, not three times, not six times. I ran for president first time and lo and behold, I win. And then people say oh, is he a smart person? I’m smarter than all of them put together, but they can’t admit it.
Out of his rants about the importance of windows, the variety of ways Mexico could be forced to pay for his wall, his continuing wish for laws that let him persecute the press more effectively, how Hillary Clinton was “guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty” no matter what anyone said, and the value of America’s “violent” and “vicious” rivers, Trump decided that there was just one problem that had to be addressed.