Donald Trump reportedly yelled at media bigwigs for publishing a picture of him with a double chin

Donald Trump had what you might call a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad meeting with major news networks on Monday, and while the conversation was off the record, some participants have since leaked that the sit-down was "like a f—ing firing squad" with anchors going in thinking they would discuss "the access they would get to the Trump administration, but instead they got a Trump-style dressing down."

The New Yorker reports that "in the presence of television executives and anchors, Trump whined about everything from NBC News reporter Katy Tur's coverage of him to a photograph the news network has used that shows him with a double chin. Why didn't they use 'nicer' pictures?"

Another person in the room really let loose:

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In the words of another unnamed person who was in the room, Trump "truly doesn't seem to understand the First Amendment. He doesn't. He thinks we are supposed to say what he says and that's it."