While the heads of broadcast news and cable news networks agreed to meet on Monday with President-elect Donald Trump off the record at his New York high-rise, The New York Times did not. Yet on Tuesday the newspaper that Trump had often maligned was still granted a sit-down interview with him on Tuesday — after he first tweeted otherwise! — that was on the record and quite revealing, according to many of the reporters in the room who live tweeted the event.
Video: A mix of cheers, boos, and shouted questions as Trump leaves the NYT building https://t.co/23RicNJIWz
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) Nov. 22, 2016
And Times staffers also tweeted what Trump had to say about climate change:
Yet Trump's own past tweets on the matter of climate change have taken quite a different tone:
And here's what Trump himself had to say about The New York Times on Tuesday:
Yet he has said the following about the Times — as recently as early Tuesday morning:
Here's what Trump said about President Barack Obama during his Tuesday meeting at the Times:
But Trump has in the past has tweeted this about Obama's birth certificate:
Trump said the following on Tuesday about his adviser Steve Bannon, who has served as an executive of Breitbart:
Trump said this on Tuesday about Hillary Clinton, according to Times staffers:
But keep in mind just a little more than a month ago Trump tweeted the following about Clinton:
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