Jesus Christ, is he trolling? An idiot? Suffering from dementia? All of the above?
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/830047626414477312
The failing @nytimes does major FAKE NEWS China story saying “Mr.Xi has not spoken to Mr. Trump since Nov.14.” We spoke at length yesterday!
Here’s the story.
President Trump told President Xi Jinping of China on Thursday evening that the United States would honor the “One China” policy, reversing his earlier expressions of doubt about the longtime diplomatic understanding and removing a major source of tension between the United States and China since shortly after he was elected.
In a statement, the White House said Mr. Trump and Mr. Xi “discussed numerous topics, and President Trump agreed, at the request of President Xi, to honor our One China policy.” It described the call as “extremely cordial” and said the leaders had invited each other to visit.
The concession was clearly designed to put an end to an extended chill in the relationship between China and the United States. Mr. Xi, stung by Mr. Trump’s unorthodox telephone call with the president of Taiwan in December and his subsequent assertion that the United States might no longer abide by the One China policy, had not spoken to Mr. Trump since Nov. 14, the week after he was elected.
had not spoken
HAD NOT SPOKEN
Apparently the print edition of the NYT doesn’t mention the call he made yesterday, which makes sense.
Ah, ok.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-nytimes-rebuke-china-story-234895
Trump, known to prefer reading printed newspapers, likely based his Twitter complaint on the edition of the Times delivered Friday morning in Washington, which read that Chinese President Xi Jinping had not spoken to Trump since Nov. 14 because he was upset with the U.S. president’s rebuke of the “one China” policy. In Washington, the story was headlined “China’s president, stung by Taiwan call, is said to shun Trump.”
A later edition of Friday’s New York Times, as well as the online version, details a Thursday night conversation between Trump and Xi in which the U.S. president agreed that he would honor the longstanding “one China” policy that officially recognizes the Chinese government in Beijing, not the one in Taiwan.
The later edition of the newspaper also carried a new headline, “After silence from Xi, Trump endorses the ‘one China’ policy.” Online, the story was headlined “Trump tells Xi Jinping U.S. will honor ‘one China’ policy.”
Mark Landler, one of the Times reporters who authored the story in question, defended it on Twitter against Trump’s criticism. Linking to the president’s Twitter post, Landler wrote that “we reported accurately that Xi wouldn’t talk to POTUS without One China pledge. Updated story when he did just that.”
Thank god we have a so-called president who lashes out immediately instead of being rational. Exactly what we need.