[Alberta's Child]

Unlike Steve King, Donald Trump is an absolute master at manipulating the media. He's been doing it for years.

In that NYT interview you describe from July 2017, the one thing I'll never forget was how the notoriously hateful Maggie Habermann was clearly astonished that Trump was a normal human being and was not huddled under his desk quaking in fear over the Mueller investigation.

Look at the King situation and see exactly how differently the two approach these things.

King runs around claiming that the NYT quoted him out of context.

Trump would have posted about a half-dozen Twitter messages calling the "failing New York Time" a bunch of "fake news" liars.

[kabar]

The accusation that a “great replacement” of whites is underway — which conspiracy theorists often link to prominent Jews like George Soros — animated the torch-carrying white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017, who chanted, “You will not replace us” and “Jews will not replace us.”

Mr. Trump’s refusal to condemn the marchers, and his insistence that there were “very fine people on both sides,” was cheered by neo-Nazi websites.

Trump has repeatedly tried to claim that his remarks were out of context. You can expect this to come up again many times in 2020. No amount of tweets will make it go away, especially since the MSM will repeatedly state it all the way thru 2020.