Donald Trump is—he will tell you straight out—a very smart man. Which means his thought process here is probably just going over my head. In an
interview on Morning Joe:
Asked about Tuesday’s announcement of a nuclear agreement with Iran, Trump said “it’s a ridiculous deal” and “a disgrace.” The United States, he said, “should have doubled up the sanctions.”
“Well, they didn’t read The Art of the Deal. Most people did; they didn’t,” he said. “I have seen the deal. I’ve seen it broken down in every newspaper you can imagine, and I think I know the deal quite well,” he added, when pressed about whether he had read the deal himself.
Side note: Most people?!? As in a majority of the adults in the United States?
The Art of the Deal sold tens of millions of copies? Why do references to its sales record
not reflect that? But I digress. In the same interview, Trump discussed his feelings about the media:
One thing he has learned is “how dishonest … some of the political media” is, in contrast to the financial journalists with whom he normally interacts.
“They don’t want to print the truth. They don’t want to say what you said. They don’t want to say what you mean. They know what you said, they know what you mean, and they put it in totally different words. It’s like you didn’t say it, it’s incredible to me,” Trump said, noting that he has become “more careful” in dealing with some people in the media as a result.
So the media doesn't want to print the truth, but he knows all about the Iran deal because he read about it in the newspaper, which is part of the media.
Also, what kind of magic does he think the media is working on the televised interviews and speeches in which we can all see him saying the same things the media says he says? It would take some truly top-notch misleading editing to have created video of Trump saying all the things he's been shown in the media saying if he didn't really say them. Instead, I think we have a case of a rich guy thinking he should be able to say whatever he wants without facing any consequences for it, ever, and blaming everyone but himself when people notice that he's a creep.