New York Times Reporters Just Live-Tweeted Their Meeting With Donald Trump and It Was Surreal

‘In Theory I Could Run My Business Perfectly and Then Run the Country Perfectly. There’s Never Been a Case Like This.’

Donald Trump just concluded his meeting with reporters and editors from The New York Times, at the paper’s Times Square headquarters on 8th Avenue. Trump and the Times have had an especially contentious relationship, since the Manhattan billionaire targets the paper of record any time it publishes a report on him he doesn’t like.

Times reporters live-tweeted the meeting, and it was surreal.

For example:

But now, Trump says he wants to reset the relationship – hours after calling off the meeting, he reinstated it shortly thereafter.

The tweets reporters were posting were surreal. They paint a portrait of a man who is wholly unaware of his own actions and comments, a man who believes he has far more power than he constitutionally does, a man whose words ring hollow given his previous statements.

Take a look:

Trump claims to have little knowledge of the white supremacists and white nationalists whom he has given power to:

He claims he can do anything he wants, that the law does not define conflict of interest for a president (he’s incorrect):

He says there’s a bit of a connection between man-made climate change and human activity:

He walks back Kellyanne Conway’s claim from Tuesday morning that he won’t charge Hillary Clinton. (Note: It’s not within his power to do so.):

Stunningly, he admits to using his position as president-elect to advance his business interests, seems unfazed by it:

He reiterates from this morning he has zero intention of liquidating company, establishing blind trust:

The Huffington Post’s Senior media reporter Michael Calderone posted these images:

And a note from the Times’ senior editor Patrick LaForge:

Take a look at these two reports from earlier today about Trump’s meeting with the Times: 

BREAKING: Trump Suggests That Legally, Nothing He Can Do Is a Conflict of Interest

Trump Disavows White Supremacists and White Nationalists but Defends Their Man in His Administration

UPDATE: 4:15 PM EST –

Via NY Times media reporter: Trump had called the Times “failing,” among other things. Now: