Trump talks about his press coverage in Black History Month meeting,
Channel: sport 4 geek
Date: 2017-02-01

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President Trump participated in what was supposed to be an “African-American History Month listening session” at the White House on Wednesday. But at least initially Trump did most of the talking.

First, Trump rehashed his complaint over a reporter who had apparently made a mistake reporting that the bust of Martin Luther King Jr. had been removed from the Oval Office on the day of his inauguration.

“You all read about Dr. Martin Luther King a week ago when somebody said I took the statue out of my office, and it turned out that it was fake news,” Trump said at the top of the meeting, which was attended by roughly 20 civil rights and religious leaders and black members of the Trump administration. “Fake news. The statue is cherished. It’s one of the favorite things in the — and we have some good ones. We have Lincoln. And we have Jefferson. And we have Dr. Martin Luther King. … But they said the statue, the bust of Dr. Martin Luther King, was taken out of the office. And it was never even touched.”

Time magazine’s Zeke Miller reported on Twitter that the bust of King was missing from the Oval Office, but he sent out a correction minutes later, explaining the bust had apparently been obscured by a Secret Service agent. Miller then apologized both to his colleagues and directly to White House press secretary Sean Spicer, who accepted it. But later, while railing against the media, Spicer suggested that the reporter ought to apologize to Trump too.

“I think it was a disgrace, but that’s the way the press is,” Trump continued. “Very unfortunate.”