Donald Trump made a new series of tweets Sunday railing against the New York Times as “fake news,” and called the paper’s new editorial board member “disgusting,” in an apparent reference to recent hire Sarah Jeong.
“From the day I announced, the Times has been Fake News, and with their disgusting new Board Member, it will only get worse!” Trump wrote. Jeong, who was hired to the Times’ editorial board earlier this month, has been criticized because of now-deleted Twitter jokes she made at the expense of “white people” years ago.
A rep for New York Times said the newspaper was not commenting on Trump’s tweets beyond a statement it issued on Twitter in support of the story he criticized.