If anyone thought that election to the highest office in the land had changed Donald Trump, the president-elect’s news conference Wednesday was a depressing spectacle. As he did on the campaign trail, Trump berated the media, hurled exaggerated accusations and trafficked in vague promises — “incredible people” are going to do “tremendous things.” He shouted down a CNN reporter. But at the news conference, Trump also heaped contempt on a reporter for CNN, which had merely reported that a two-page synopsis of the allegations was presented to Trump and President Obama by intelligence officials. “Your organization’s terrible,” Trump told CNN reporter Jim Acosta. And by the end of the news conference he was already backtracking, saying: “But you know what?

Source: Los Angeles Times January 12, 2017 12:00 UTC