by Paul Bedard | May 19, 2017
Insiders said it is driven by Trump who was angered by a New York Times story predicting a staff shake-up that included dumping spokesman Sean Spicer. It was headlined: Looking Like a Liar or a Fool: What It Means to Work for Trump.
"F**k the New York Times," Trump said. "They're not our friends.
We're never going to win them over," he added, according to a Trump insider.
The change was most notably seen in Spicer's latest White House briefings. Where he used to battle with reporters, he shifted to saying little beyond policy statements. For example, in a short eight-minute Air Force One gaggle, he referred to earlier statements six times.
The goal "is to get across to the public that the media are assholes," the insider said.
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