"Realize once again that the #Fake News Media will never be satisfied," Trump lamented, calling members of the media "truly bad people!" But in a tweet sent hours later, Trump appeared to suggest that he'd spoken out only to appease his critics and seemed frustrated that his remarks hadn't done more to silence them. President Trump on Monday answered two days of bipartisan furor over his initial response to deadly protests in Charlottesville, Va., with a statement for the first time explicitly blaming white supremacists for the “racist violence” over the weekend. When asked about a Monday news conference that the White House had announced and then canceled, Trump insisted he had already held one. Then, when the reporter persisted, Trump labeled him “fake news” as he strode from the room.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 15, 2017 00:02 UTC