To top it off, he called journalists “very honorable people,” after previously referring to them as “the world’s most dishonest people” and “the lowest form of life.”What is going on? Trump has appeared, at times, to pivot toward a tamer approach to media relations but has always reverted to hostility. “I figure they can’t treat me any worse!” Trump told CNN at the time. After winning, Trump invited TV anchors and executives to an off-the-record meeting at Trump Tower in what looked like an extension of an olive branch. A subsequent meeting with New York Times journalists went better.

Source: National Post April 14, 2017 16:21 UTC