Described as "like a f—ing firing squad," "a horrible meeting," and "a total disaster," a sit-down between Donald Trump and journalists from the major networks went about as well as expected.
The meeting, the New York Post reports, was held Monday at Trump Tower, attended by Lester Holt and Chuck Todd of NBC News; George Stephanopoulos, David Muir, and Martha Raddatz of ABC News; Charlie Rose and Gayle King of CBS News; Jeff Zucker and Erin Burnett of CNN; and others from MSNBC and Fox News. A person with knowledge of the meeting, which the participants agreed not to talk about, told the Post the journalists went in thinking they would discuss "the access they would get to the Trump administration, but instead they got a Trump-style dressing down."
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