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<\/a>President Trump calls for Washington Post reporter who apologized for inaccurate tweet to be fired<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
By Emily Yahr
\nThe New York Post<\/p>\n
President Trump on Saturday evening issued a call for a reporter with The Washington Post to be fired because of a quickly deleted tweet that presented a misleading impression of Trump\u2019s rally crowd in Florida.<\/p>\n
The Post reporter, David Weigel, had earlier tweeted a photo of the crowd gathered at Pensacola Bay Center for Trump\u2019s speech there Friday evening, showing numerous empty seats. He removed the tweet after being told by others that the photo was taken before the venue filled up and apologized in a later Twitter exchange with the president.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s public response<\/a>: \u201c.@daveweigel of the Washington Post just admitted that his picture was a FAKE (fraud?) showing an almost empty arena last night for my speech in Pensacola when, in fact, he knew the arena was packed (as shown also on T.V.). FAKE NEWS, he should be fired.\u201d<\/p>\n On Saturday night, The Washington Post released a statement. \u201cDave Weigel relied on an inaccurate image in tweeting about President Trump\u2019s rally in Pensacola,\u201d the paper\u2019s vice president of communications, Kristine Coratti Kelly, said. \u201cWhen others pointed out the mistake to Weigel, he quickly deleted the tweet. And when he was later addressed by the president on Twitter, he promptly apologized for it.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump has frequently lashed out at media figures in very personal terms. It was not the first time the White House had called for a journalist\u2019s firing: In September, after ESPN commentator Jemele Hill called the president a \u201cwhite supremacist\u201d in a tweet, his press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said in a White House press briefing that it was a \u201cfireable offense.\u201d<\/p>\n Earlier Saturday, Trump similarly lashed out at two other media organizations,\u00a0ABC<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0CNN<\/a>, that had issued corrections on stories about Trump in recent days.<\/p>\n \u201cFake News CNN made a vicious and purposeful mistake yesterday. They were caught red handed, just like lonely Brian Ross at ABC News (who should be immediately fired for his \u2018mistake\u2019). Watch to see if @CNN fires those responsible, or was it just gross incompetence?\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n Early Saturday morning, Trump tweeted about the \u201cGREAT EVENING last night\u201d at his rally in Pensacola, Fla., where he told the audience, among other things, to \u201cget out and vote for Roy Moore,\u201d Alabama\u2019s Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, who has been\u00a0accused of sexual misconduct<\/a>\u00a0with teenage girls. \u201cArena was packed to the rafters, the crowd was loud, loving and really smart,\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>\n