Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 09:33 pm
Donald Trump took the opportunity, in what is becoming an all-too-familiar site for our president-elect, to attack The New York Times this morning in a tweet:
The failing @nytimes story is so totally wrong on transition. It is going so smoothly. Also, I have spoken to many foreign leaders.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 16, 2016
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The Times had reported Tuesday that Trump’s transition team is in total disarray. One result of this, according to the Times, is that “Prominent American allies were in the meantime scrambling to figure out how and when to contact Mr. Trump.”
Trump then went on a twitter rampage bragging about all the phone calls he’s taken from foreign leaders:
I have recieved and taken calls from many foreign leaders despite what the failing @nytimes said. Russia, U.K., China, Saudi Arabia, Japan,
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 16, 2016
Australia, New Zealand, and more. I am always available to them. @nytimes is just upset that they looked like fools in their coverage of me.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 16, 2016
The Times, not feeling like fools at all, but standing by their story, has now responded
NYT just issued this statement in response to Trump's anti-NYT tweetstorm (https://t.co/Zda4D7RCwz) pic.twitter.com/JS7fOyoPZT
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) November 16, 2016
This is our president-elect, having already threatened to sue the Times and still obsessed with what the media is saying about him. Do you remember how outraged the right-wing media was when President Obama addressed Fox News’ false reporting directly? They were outraged.
Yet here is Trump not only mentioning the Times but obsessively attacking it on twitter on an almost daily basis. This is a foretaste of what we can expect over the next year, a president outraged over every slight, real or imagined.
One wonders how he will find the time to govern between unhinged tweetstorms and three days a week spent at Trump Tower.
Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen’s Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.
