WASHINGTON:
US President-elect Donald Trump has lashed out at top electronic media executives and journalists, terming them “dishonest” and “deceitful liars” after he invited them for a private meeting of minds.
“Instead of striking a harmonious tone to build rapport following the election, Trump was combative,” The Washingt
on Post quoted participants as saying.
“In a calm and deliberate voice, he told the group sitting around a conference table that they had failed to provide their viewers with f
According to the daily, 70-year-old Trump repeatedly used the words “unfair” and “dishonest” to describe the coverage during yesterday’s meeting in New York with television journalists and executives.
Prominent among news anchors were ABC News anchors George Stephanopoulos and David Muir; CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and Erin Burnett;
ABC correspondent Martha Raddatz.
Among the network news executives were CNN Worldwide Chairman Jeff Zucker, NBC News President Deborah Turness, MSNBC President Phil Griffin, ABC News President James Goldston, and the four top executives from Fox News, Bill Shine, Jack Abernethy, Jay Wallace and Suzanne Scott.
“It was like a f—ing firing squad,” The New York Post reported based on information obtained from those inside the meeting.
“The meeting was a total disaster. The TV execs and anchors went in there thinking they would be discussing the access they would get to the Trump administration, but instead they got a Trump-style dressing down,” the source added.
Trump kept saying ‘We’re in a room of liars, the deceitful dishonest media who got it all wrong.’
“He addressed everyone in the room calling the media dishonest, deceitful liars. He
called out Zucker by name and said everyone at CNN was a liar, and CNN was [a] network of liars,” the report said.
Kellyanne Conway, chairman of the Trump Campaign, however, disputed such reports.
“No, that’s not true at all. I sat right to his left.
He did not explode in anger. By the way, it’s an off-the-record meeting so whoever said that and mischaracterised it should think twice,” she said on Bloomberg Poetics.
Conway along with the incoming White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus were present in the meeting along with the Chief Strategist Stephen Bannon.
“There was no need to mend fences. It was very cordial, very genial. But it was very candid and very honest. From my own perspective, it’s great to hit the reset button,” Conway said.

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