{"id":27269,"date":"2017-04-21T05:20:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T05:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=27269"},"modified":"2017-04-21T08:51:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T08:51:43","slug":"trump-blasts-new-york-times-patriots-photo-flap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/trump-blasts-new-york-times-patriots-photo-flap.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump blasts New York Times\u00a0over Patriots photo flap"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:22px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Trump blasts New York Times&nbsp;over Patriots photo flap<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\">Trump blasts New York Times&nbsp;over Patriots photo flap:- President Trump couldn&#39;t resist taking (another) shot at The New York Times over the great New England Patriots photograph flap.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\">&quot;Failing @nytimes, which has been calling me wrong for two years, just got caught in a big lie concerning New England Patriots visit to W.H.&quot; Trump tweet.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\">It wasn&#39;t a lie &mdash; just a lack of perspective.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\">It began when the Times and other news organizations tweeted out photos comparing the Patriots&#39; visit with Trump on Wednesday with the team&#39;s White House event with President Barack Obama in 2015 &mdash; there was a much bigger crowd around Obama, according to the photos.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\">The Patriots organization objected, tweeting back at the Times that &quot;these photos lack context. Facts: In 2015, over 40 football staff were on the stairs. In 2017, they were seated on the South Lawn.&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\">The New York Times responded by re-tweeting an update: &quot;Patriots say # of players was smaller this year than 2015 (34 vs. 50) but total delegation was roughly the same.&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\">Some players reportedly declined to attend the White House ceremony because they didn&#39;t want to be seen with Trump. Quarterback Tom Brady, whom Trump has called a friend, was among the missing, citing &quot;personal family matters.&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\">Other Patriots welcomed the visit, including owner Robert Kraft, a friend of Trump&#39;s who contributed $1 million to the president&#39;s inauguration committee.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\">Meanwhile, Trump opted to maintain his love\/hate relationship with his hometown newspaper &mdash; while he loves to describe The New York Times as &quot;failing,&quot; he also gives them a steady stream of interviews and scoops.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:8px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Source:-&nbsp;https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/onpolitics\/2017\/04\/20\/donald-j-trump-new-england-patriots-new-york-times\/100689224\/<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/trump-blasts-new-york-times-patriots-photo-flap.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump blasts New York Times&nbsp;over Patriots photo flap Trump blasts New York Times&nbsp;over Patriots photo flap:- President Trump couldn&#39;t resist taking (another) shot at The New York Times over the great New England Patriots photograph flap. &quot;Failing @nytimes, which has been calling me wrong for two years, just got caught [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[3296,17202,6264,12961,6267,17201],"class_list":["post-27269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-inauguration-committee","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-robert-kraft","tag-tom-brady","tag-trump-blasts-new-york-times-over-patriots-photo-flap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}