When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.
Gene WeingartenThe verb "Garland" should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone's neck, to make him unemployable.
Gene WeingartenIs it really the right of the media to dictate to the president whom he will allow in his press conferences? That's tetchier. And then there is the added issue of whether it would be a service to their readers, and the country at large, for, say, the Washington Post to take itself out of the room -- meaning they don't have the ability to ask important questions the president is obliged to answer? I think that would be a mistake.
Gene Weingarten