At 8 a.m. Sunday, President Donald Trump renewed his attack on the New York Times, once again calling the newspaper “fake news” and arguing that it should either be under new management or “be allowed to fold.”
President Donald Trump speaks on the phone with King of Saudi Arabia Salman bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017.
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AP
On Saturday, Trump said the Times’ coverage of him was “false and angry” and that the paper was suffering from “dwindling subscribers and readers.” The Times later denied this, saying the paper’s readership was actually trending upwards.
According to media reports, Trump begins each day at 5 a.m. by reading the Times and the New York Post. Sunday’s edition of the New York Times featured multiple stories on the backlash against his decision to temporarily ban residents of seven Muslim nations from entering the U.S. on the front page.
Trump later defended his decision as necessary for the country’s safety and argued that the deaths of Christians justifed his move to prioritize Christian refugees fleeing the Middle East.