Trump complains 'Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd' is not following his preferred news agenda
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President Trump lambasted NBC News' Chuck Todd in his morning tweets on Saturday, leveling allegations of fake news, snarking about Todd's appearance, and complaining that the journalist is not following his preferred news agenda.
Recent episodes of Meet the Press, Todd's primary gig at NBC, have addressed both the Russia story and Trump's surveillance allegations. Trump's tweets are likely inspired by Friday night's show, in which Todd talked Russia with former White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest.
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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.
