Here's What Made Trump Launch Twitter Tirade At Krugman And NYT

President Donald Trump's has made very clear his displeasure at the U.S. media for what he thinks is their biased coverage of him -- repeatedly. So his Twitter attack Tuesday on the New York Times and its columnist Paul Krugman, who he slammed for "false and highly inaccurate" writing, was not much surprising. The president went on to suggest this time the NYT "will have to get down on their knees & beg for forgiveness" for what it had written.

What angered Trump was Krugman's column taking down the president, his governance and policies. Krugman, a Nobel-winnning economist, is a consistent critic of Trump and Republican policies. He had concluded his latest op-ed column -- the one that provoked the presidential anger -- with the lines: "The simple fact is that one of our two major parties — the one that likes to wrap itself in the flag — no longer believes in American values."

Krugman had also criticized Trump and the results of the Russia investigation, claiming the president was aware of intervention in his campaign by a “hostile foreign power” and, once in office, tried to obstruct an inquiry over it.

What Krugman wrote is not radically different or new from what the Left-leaning media has always said, or what he himself has written earlier. His earlier columns have had headlines that scream out his animosity to Trump and the Republicans, like "Donald Trump is trying to kill you."

But Trump was in no mood to forgive or ignore this time. In his tweets, Trump said Krugman was "obsessed with hatred."

“Paul Krugman, of the Fake News New York Times, has lost all credibility, as has the Times itself, with his false and highly inaccurate writings on me. He is obsessed with hatred, just as others are obsessed with how stupid he is. He said Market would crash, Only Record Highs!” Trump tweeted.

“I wonder if the New York Times will apologize to me a second time, as they did after the 2016 Election. But this one will have to be a far bigger & better apology. On this one they will have to get down on their knees & beg for forgiveness-they are truly the Enemy of the People!”

“In the “old days” if you were President and you had a good economy, you were basically immune from criticism. Remember, “It’s the economy stupid.” Today I have, as President, perhaps the greatest economy in history...and to the Mainstream Media, it means NOTHING. But it will!”

Later in the day, Trump also blamed Twitter for playing "political games."