Selective Deafness In His Own Echo Chamber

I have written many times about the dangers of Trump's attacks on the press. This week the publisher of the New York Times went to Washington to talk to Trump in person about the same idea. Sulzberger didn't make any comments about the tete-a-tete preferring to keep their interaction confidential until Trump tweeted this:

"Had a very good and interesting meeting at the White House with A.G. Sulzberger, Publisher of the New York Times," Trump wrote. "Spent much time talking about the vast amounts of Fake News being put out by the media & how that Fake News has morphed into phrase, 'Enemy of the People.' Sad!"  

After that tweet, Sulzberger came out very forcefully, correcting the record of their conversation. Not only did the two men not have a meeting of the minds, Trump's characterization of the discussion is written by someone who apparently thinks the little voice in his brain is an entirely different person. When someone quotes himself as if he were quoting someone else there is no reasonable response except the rapid indignation of Sulzberger.


Sulzberger said he accepted the meeting to raise concerns about "the president's deeply troubling anti-press rhetoric" and that he told Trump his language was divisive and "increasingly dangerous." 

Now Trump is tweeting that Sulzberger revealed private information by responding to Trump's nonsense with the truth.