NEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump will visit The New York Times after all.
He is scheduled to meet Tuesday for a private meeting with the publisher followed by an on-the-record session with Times journalists.
Earlier in the morning, Trump had abruptly canceled the meeting, accusing the organization of changing the ground rules. In a tweet he complained that “the terms and conditions of the meeting were changed at the last moment. Not nice.”
He said in another tweet: “Perhaps a new meeting will be set up with the (at)nytimes. In the meantime they continue to cover me inaccurately and with a nasty tone!”
But Eileen M. Murphy, the newspaper’s senior vice president for communications, said, “We did not change the ground rules at all and made no attempt to.”
The Times quoted her as saying that Trump’s aides tried to alter the conditions, asking for a private meeting only, with nothing on the record, “which we refused to agree to.”
“In the end,” she said, “we concluded with them that we would go back to the original plan of a small off-the-record session and a larger on-the-record session with reporters and columnists.” That was followed by Trump pulling out.
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