Donald Trump played the New York media like a fiddle for decades, even successfully masquerading as his own PR flack on several occasions. So he probably thought it would be just as easy to fool the national media after he entered politics.
But it’s been a much choppier ride than he expected, and there simply aren’t enough binkies on the Eastern Seaboard to put him down for the night.
His latest plaintive howl was directed at The New York Times, which discovered over the weekend that his trade policy brinkmanship with Mexico — and the “concessions” he supposedly extracted from them — were nothing but kabuki theater. Seems whatever Trump claims to have accomplished with his tariffs was actually agreed to months ago.