Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
President Donald Trump sent nine tweets before 8:30 a.m. ET on Monday.
"Hard to believe that with 24/7 #Fake News on CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, NYTIMES & WAPO, the Trump base is getting stronger!" Trump wrote not long after 7 a.m. ET.
The tweet followed a number of tweets excoriating The New York Times as "totally inept," highlighting a number of his administrations' "successes,"and suggesting that recent Trump rallies indicate that the "Trump base is bigger and stronger than ever."
Trump is spending Monday at his home at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey for a planned 17-day vacation while the White House's heating and cooling system is replaced.
The failing @nytimes, which has made every wrong prediction about me including my big election win (apologized), is totally inept!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 7, 2017The Trump base is far bigger & stronger than ever before (despite some phony Fake News polling). Look at rallies in Penn, Iowa, Ohio.......
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 7, 2017...and West Virginia. The fact is the Fake News Russian collusion story, record Stock Market, border security, military strength, jobs.....
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 7, 2017... Supreme Court pick, economic enthusiasm, deregulation & so much more have driven the Trump base even closer together. Will never change!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 7, 2017Hard to believe that with 24/7 #Fake News on CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, NYTIMES & WAPO, the Trump base is getting stronger!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 7, 2017Working hard from New Jersey while White House goes through long planned renovation. Going to New York next week for more meetings.
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 7, 2017