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Trump, After Canceling, Will Now Attend New York Times Meeting Trump, After Canceling, Will Now Attend New York Times Meeting
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A planned meeting on Tuesday between President-elect Donald J. Trump and The New York Times that appeared to have fallen through will take place after all, with Mr. Trump and staff members traveling to the paper’s offices at midday for a session with reporters, editors and the publisher. The strained relationship between Donald J. Trump and The New York Times took an odd path on Tuesday when a planned meeting between the president-elect and the newspaper was abruptly canceled by Mr. Trump and then quickly rescheduled.
A spokeswoman for Mr. Trump, Hope Hicks, confirmed that Mr. Trump would attend the meeting, after he initially wrote on Twitter early Tuesday morning that the meeting was canceled. The Times released a statement saying: Spokeswomen for both Mr. Trump and The Times confirmed that Mr. Trump and members of his staff would attend a meeting at midday at the paper’s Midtown headquarters.
“Mr. Trump’s staff has told us that the president-elect’s meeting with The Times is on again. He will meet with our publisher off the record and that session will be followed by an on-the-record meeting with our journalists and editorial columnists.’’ “Mr. Trump’s staff has told us that the president-elect’s meeting with The Times is on again,’’ the paper said in a statement. “He will meet with our publisher off the record and that session will be followed by an on-the-record meeting with our journalists and editorial columnists.’’
In his Twitter post, the president-elect said that he had canceled the gathering because the ground rules had been changed. Just hours earlier, it appeared that the meeting was off. Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter shortly after 6 a.m. that he had called off the meeting, contending that the ground rules had been changed.
A spokeswoman for The Times, Eileen Murphy, responded that the paper had not changed the arrangements for the meeting and was not aware it had been canceled until reading Mr. Trump’s Twitter posts. A spokeswoman for The Times, Eileen Murphy, responded that the paper had not changed the arrangements for the meeting and was not aware it had been canceled until reading Mr. Trump’s Twitter posts. The company said that Mr. Trump’s team had asked on Monday to change the ground rules, but that the paper had declined.
“We did not change the ground rules at all and made no attempt to,’’ she said. “They tried to yesterday — asking for only a private meeting and no on-the-record segment, which we refused to agree to.”“We did not change the ground rules at all and made no attempt to,’’ she said. “They tried to yesterday — asking for only a private meeting and no on-the-record segment, which we refused to agree to.”
She added: “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.”She added: “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.”
Around midafternoon on Monday, Ms. Hicks talked to The Times’s publisher, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., and said Mr. Trump’s schedule had become busy and he would only have time for the off-the-record session, Ms. Murphy said. Mr. Sulzberger said that would not work, and Ms. Hicks told him she would get back to him. The Times has been a frequent target of attacks from Mr. Trump, who chafed at some of the unflattering coverage of him during the presidential campaign. He often refers to the “failing” New York Times and has threatened to sue the company for libel over an article about two women who accused him of touching them inappropriately years earlier.
About 20 minutes later, Ms. Murphy said, Ms. Hicks called again to say Mr. Trump would be able to accommodate both the off-the-record and on-the-record parts of the meeting, and the meeting remained scheduled. Then Mr. Trump announced early Tuesday the meeting was off, until it was rescheduled later in the morning.
The Times has been a frequent target of attacks from Mr. Trump, who chafed at some of the unflattering coverage of him during the presidential campaign.
Mr. Trump followed his tweet on Tuesday about canceling the meeting with two other posts about The Times, one of which said:Mr. Trump followed his tweet on Tuesday about canceling the meeting with two other posts about The Times, one of which said:
The meeting comes one day after Mr. Trump attacked television network executives and anchors during an off-the-record meeting at Trump Tower. At the meeting, Mr. Trump said the networks had been dishonest and that they had missed the signs of his impending victory. Mr. Trump later tweeted: “The meeting with the @nytimes is back on at 12:30 today. Look forward to it!”
The meeting developments came one day after Mr. Trump attacked television network executives and anchors during an off-the-record meeting at Trump Tower. At that meeting, Mr. Trump said that the networks had been dishonest and that they had missed the signs of his impending victory.
Ms. Murphy said Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for Mr. Trump, talked to The Times’s publisher, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., around midafternoon on Monday and said Mr. Trump’s schedule had become busy and he would have time only for the off-the-record session. Mr. Sulzberger said that would not work, and Ms. Hicks told him she would get back to him.
About 20 minutes later, Ms. Murphy said, Ms. Hicks called again to say Mr. Trump would be able to accommodate both the off-the-record and on-the-record parts of the meeting, and the meeting remained scheduled. Then early Tuesday came Mr. Trump’s tweets saying the meeting was off — until it was rescheduled later in the morning.