Trump seethes on Twitter about ‘fake’ news coverage of his work habits – including a ‘phony’ NY Times report about him ‘angrily eating a hamburger and Diet Coke in my bedroom’
- President Trump called himself the ‘hardest working president in history’ as he sent out a flurry of tweets protesting a New York Times story
- The Times piece said Trump is spending hours watching the TV coverage of his handling of the coronavirus crisis
- It said he seldom attends the coronavirus taskforce meetings and instead just joins the group for the press briefing
- It also details the president’s ‘sour’ mood and the comfort food made available in the White House including French fries and Diet Coke
- Trump accused the Times of lying about ‘his schedule and eating habits’ and said he was working around the clock
- He also said the Times journalists should give their ‘Noble’ prize back, confusing it with the Pulitzer, which they won, and spelling Nobel wrong
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President Trump said ‘people that know me’ believe that he’s the ‘hardest working president in history’ and went after The New York Times for reporting he’s ‘angrily’ eating hamburgers and drinking Diet Cokes in bed.
Trump said he’s often working late at night in the Oval Office instead.
‘The people that know me and know the history of our Country say that I am the hardest working President in history,’ Trump tweeted Sunday afternoon. ‘I don’t know about that, but I am a hard worker and have probably gotten more done in the first 3 1/2 years than any President in history. The Fake News hates it!’
President Trump became enraged after reading a New York Times story that detailed his mood and work ethic during the coronavirus crisis
President Trump reacted negatively to a story by The New York Times that said he was in a ‘sour’ mood and spending hours watching television
In the next tweets, he went into more detail.
‘I work from early in the morning until late at night, haven’t left the White House in many months (except to launch Hospital Ship Comfort) in order to take care of Trade Deals, Military Rebuilding etc., and then I read a phony stroy in the failing @nytimes about my work schedule and eating habits, written by a third rate reporter who knows nothing about me,’ Trump wrote.
‘I will often be in the Oval Office late into the night & read & see that I am angrily eating a hamburger & Diet Coke in my bedroom,’ Trump continued. ‘People with me are always stunned. Anything to demean!’
Trump then mistakenly suggested that the Times’ reporters had received a ‘Noble’ prize for their work reporting on Russia’s role in influencing the 2016 presidential election and the country’s ties to Trump’s team.
The New York Times and The Washington Post were awarded a Pulitzer for their efforts.
The president likely was referring to a Nobel Peace Prize.
The president mistakenly mixed up Nobel prizes with Pulitzers and also misspelled Nobel in another series of tweets
Trump continued to target The New York Times for a story that suggested he wasn’t doing much work
‘When will all of the “reporters” who have received Noble Prizes for their work on Russia, Russia, Russia, only to have been proven totally wrong (and, in fact, it was the other side who committed the crimes), be turning back their cherished “Nobles” so that they can be given to the REAL REPORTERS & JOURNALISTS who got it right,’ Trump wrote.
‘I can give the Committee a very comprehensive list,’ he added. ‘When will the Noble Committee DEMAND the Prizes back, especially since they were gotten under fraud? The reporters and Lamestream Media knew the truth all along.’
‘Lawsuits should be brought against all, including the Fake News Organizations, to rectify this terrible injustice. For all of the great lawyers out there, do we have any takers? When will the Noble Committee Act? Better be fast!’ Trump wrote.
The likely story in question, penned by two Times journalists – Annie Karni and Katie Rogers – said that the president hasn’t been showing up in the Oval Office until as late as noon. His mood is ‘sour’ and he spends all morning watching TV coverage of his handling of the coronavirus crisis.
It says Trump ‘rarely’ attends the coronavirus taskforce meetings before briefing the press. And he doesn’t prepare for the press briefing.
The story doesn’t mention hamburgers – nor the president eating them in bed.
‘Comfort food — including French fries and Diet Coke — is readily available,’ the story does say.