Donald Trump on Monday said he’s grown used to the mocking of his campaign by the press, such as The Boston Globe’s fake front page he ripped over the weekend.
“Well, I’ve become numb,” Trump said during an appearance on Fox News’s “The O’Reilly Factor” when asked about the mockery from such media outlets.
“If you’re a conservative, a Republican, the press is just brutal,” Trump continued. “Here’s a paper that, by the way, sold for a dollar — it’s worthless. It’s a worthless paper.”
“They did, I don’t know if it was an April fool or what, but they did this edition where everything’s about Trump. I mean, what kind of stuff is that?” Trump asked.
Kathleen Kingsbury, editor of the Ideas section of the Boston Globe, which ran the fake front page on Sunday imaging what a Trump presidency would look like, defended the paper on Monday.
Appearing earlier on Fox News’s “On The Record,” Kingsbury argued the newspaper’s opinion section wanted to imagine what some of Trump’s proposals would look like in reality.
Describing some of Trump’s rhetoric as “deeply troubling,” she acknowledged the newspaper had received “mixed” reactions to the fake front page it published Sunday.
“We’ve got to stop what’s happening at the border, and they talk about it like it’s some kind of a joke,” Trump shot back during his interview on Fox.
Trump was also asked about perceptions about his campaign from mainstream media outlets, with host Bill O’Reilly suggesting some at CBS were “appalled” by his status as a presidential front-runner.
“They think you’re a vulgarian, that you don’t have that class to run this country,” O’Reilly said. “You know that perception in a lot of network places. Does that bother you?”
“Well I don’t know that’s the perception,” Trump fired back. “I went to the Wharton School of Finance, I was a very smart person and student and all of that — and hopefully am — and frankly, CBS’s morning show, with Charlie Rose and all of them, they beg me to go on the show all the time.”
“They beg me to go on the show, so I don’t think ‘vulgarian’ is the right word,” Trump said, apparently contextualizing a tweet he had fired off earlier in the day, before his interview was taped.