Journalist son of the Congress leader, Shashi Tharoor, Ishaan who works for the Washington Post has been tweeting live from Davos, Switzerland. His dispatches, mainly on the speech by the US President Donald Trump have garnered a large number of eyeballs.
It seems that Trump was once more caught on the wrong foot, this time at the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Speaking at one of the gatherings yesterday, he described the Press as “nasty, mean and fake” for which he was promptly booed by the audience. According to reports some also laughed.
He made the comment while comparing the media coverage he received before and after becoming the US President.
“As a businessman, I was always treated really well by the Press… and it wasn’t until I became a politician that I realized how nasty, how mean, how vicious and how fake the Press can be,” he said in a packed hall.
“But overall, the bottom line… somebody said ‘Well they couldn’t have been that bad because here we are, we’re President’. I think we’re doing a really great job with my team,” he said.
Ishaan, even stated that some journalists also booed Trump for his comment.
“Foreign journos sitting next to me booed Trump’s attack on the Press,” he tweeted.
Yes, there was a great chorus of hissing from non-US journalists around me the moment he said this. https://t.co/k9d8cPicZf
— Ishaan Tharoor (@ishaantharoor) January 26, 2018