Donald Trump tweeted early Tuesday morning that he had cancelled a meeting with the New York Times after, he claims, the “terms and conditions of the meeting were changed at the last moment.”
Eileen M. Murphy, senior vice president for communications at the Times, said in a statement that the news organization had not changed the meeting’s conditions, and had learned about the news by reading Trump’s tweets.
According to the Times, Trump’s camp approached them on Monday and asked for the meeting to be completely off-the-record, which the paper refused. The now-cancelled meeting, the paper said, was intended to be mostly on-the-record with a “small off-the-record session.”
“I cancelled today’s meeting with the failing @nytimes when the terms and conditions of the meeting were changed at the last moment. Not nice,” Trump tweeted. “Perhaps a new meeting will be set up with the @nytimes. In the meantime they continue to cover me inaccurately and with a nasty tone!”
This latest spat is one in a number of attacks Trump had directed toward the New York Times. It also comes one day after the president-elect scolded major TV news outlets including CNN and NBC in an off-the-record meeting.
Read Murphy’s full statement below:
“We were unaware that the meeting was canceled until we saw the president-elect’s tweet this morning. We did not change the ground rules at all and made no attempt to. They tried to yesterday — asking for only a private meeting and no on-the-record segment, which we refused to agree to. In the end, we concluded with them that we would go back to the original plan of a small off-the-record session and a larger on-the-record session with reporters and columnists.”
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