President Trump says news media wants to see a confrontation with Russia, even war

President Donald Trump lashed out anew at the news media, suggesting that reporters are slanting their coverage of his relationship with Russian President Vladi­mir Putin with the aim of provoking a possible war. “The Fake News Media wants so badly to see a major confrontation with Russia, even a confrontation that could lead to war,” the president wrote amid a series of morning tweets. “They are pushing so recklessly hard and hate the fact that I’ll probably have a good relationship with Putin.” In another tweet, President Trump claimed that his summit with Putin “was a great success, except with the real enemy of the people, the Fake News Media.”