Why does Trump continue to give LONG interviews to "unfriendly" newspapers like the NYT?

[Casprings]

First, the New York Times and Washington Post have dome amazing journalism since Trump has taken over. Every major Russia story I can think of has broken in either the NYT, WP, or WSJ.

That said, I just don't understand why Trump continues to give these really long, news making interviews to the NYT? What is his motivation to do it? Why wouldn't you just go on Fox News, etc?

It just doesn't make any sense to me. Any thoughts:

[emulatorloo]

1. 1) He's a New Yorker 2) He understands Fox News is known as a GOP mouthpiece, mainstream people

don't watch Fox. Fox is only for talking to his crazy base.

[Casprings]

5. Why the hell would you want to tell anyone outside your base this stuff?

It just seems more likely to make people really mad and want you out..

That said, I do think the answer is really easy. He is incompetent.

[Shell_Seas]

2. Because he's a moron.

[whathehell]

3. He can't resist talking about himself..

Strategy, common sense, everything, it seems, goes out the window when his ego gets needy.

[DeminPennswoods]

4. Easy, he desperately wants their approval

Trump has never been accepted by the old money/true elites of NYC society and the NYT is among that group. He is desperate for their approval and he loves the media no matter what he says otherwise.

[Casprings]

6. Yeah, I think that sounds right. NT

[WhiskeyGrinder]

7. They also publish a lot of stories about internal dissent and disruption that never seem to go

anywhere, cf. Sarah Kendzior.

Link to tweet

[La Lioness Priyanka]

8. some people are desperate for approval

[Binkie The Clown]

9. He's so sure he's a genius, he wants to prove it to everyone who doesn't agree.

He thinks if he talks long enough that everyone will suddenly realize how smart he really is. More proof he's a moron.

[BlueJac]

10. He thinks he is a great leader..........

far from it...a total moron!

[librechik]

11. Like all narcissists, he believes all he has to do is explain

his crazy theories properly, and school the press, and they would change from "fake" to favorable, He simply won't understand that they can never be anything but objective, This is automatically impossible for the narcissist, because his belief systems are unshakeable and wrong.

[spanone]

12. EGO