In an impromptu press conference on the South Lawn of the White House yesterday on his way to Ohio, U.S. President Donald Trump responded to a question about the often controversial content on his Twitter account, which a reporter suggested was “beneath the dignity of the office.”
“I think that Twitter is a way that I get out the word when we have a corrupt media. And it is corrupt and it’s fake. So Twitter is a way that I can get out the word. Because our media is so dishonest — a lot of it — the mainstream. A lot of it. They don’t report the facts…So when I do Twitter statements, I get out the word from a fake and corrupt media…On five sites, I have over 100 million people, and that includes Facebook and Instagram and Twitter and everything. And it’s a way that I can get honesty out, because there’s tremendous dishonesty with respect to the fake-news media.”
Trump often takes questions from “journalists” as he heads to Marine 1 before a trip.
The Twitter exchange starts at about the 7:50 mark.
