There are easily 50 links to POTUS's false statement about the Sun....I am sure you will find them all FAKE. So take a look for yourself. I doubt Fox covered it. Just Google Trump claims Fake News....lol
I searched and the first link is from The Daily Beast,
here.
They say:
President Donald Trump claimed in a joint press conference with U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May that his bombshell interview with British newspaper The Sun was “fake news.” Trump criticized May in the Sun interview, saying she did not heed his advice when she opted for a “soft” Brexit.
They provide a link to the Sun article,
here.
The Sun article has an edited subtitled soundtrack spliced in numerous places. The start is not the real start of the interview. First I begin typing Trump’s words as I hear them, without looking at the subs. Since it is not the real start I begin with an ellipsis (…) and a lowercase letter. Here is the script based on what I heard:
…well, if they do a deal like that it will most likely… because we’ll be dealing with the, ah, European Union. Instead of dealing with U.K. So it will probably kill the deal with – if they do that, the - their trade deal with the U.S. is, will probably not be made.
Here is the script as seen in the SUN subtitles, in blue. Mistakes are underlined or given an @ symbol:
@Well @ if they do a deal like that it would most likely @@ because we’ll be dealing with the European Union @ instead of dealing with UK, @ so it will probably kill the deal with – if they do that their trade deal with the US @ will probably not be made.
I compared with how The Times presented the same quote,
here. Here it is, in green, again, with mistakes underlined or with the @ symbol:
@@It will most likely [not happen] because we’ll be dealing with the European Union @ instead of dealing with U.K.. So it will probably kill the deal with . . . if they do that @ the their trade deal with the U.S. @ will probably not be met.
Both the Sun and The Times made mistakes, but the Times put “[not happen]” between ‘likely’ and ‘because’, showing that my original statement about the quote being chopped out of a longer quote was correct. Trump’s meaning was not conveyed by the Sun in this way, adding one more mistake to their transcript. So now I am going to compare the updated version of what I typed (in black), which will include The Times’ ‘[not happen]’, to the Sun’s version (in blue) and draw my final conclusions.
…well, if they do a deal like that it will most likely [not happen] because we’ll be dealing with the, ah, European Union. Instead of dealing with U.K. So it will probably kill the deal with – if they do that, the - their trade deal with the U.S. is, will probably not be made.
@Well @ if they do a deal like that it would most likely @@ because we’ll be dealing with the European Union @ instead of dealing with UK, @ so it will probably kill the deal with – if they do that their trade deal with the US @ will probably not be made.
The very beginning of the Sun’s quote was Fake for the following reasons:
1) It did not start with an ellipsis or a lowercase letter, but a capital ‘W’, giving the impression it was the beginning of the quote, which is false.
2 & 3) There is no comma after ‘well’, and they wrote ‘would’ instead of ‘will’.
4) They did not include the [not happen] to explain what Trump meant, which is essential when cutting a quote from a larger quote when it will lose context otherwise. Fake News want Trump’s quotes to lose context so this was deliberate.
5) They missed periods after ‘Union’ and ‘U.K.’. Trump’s pauses clearly made them separate sentences, but the Sun joined them together.
6) They left out a comma after ‘that’ and the ‘the’ he said, and a hyphen.
7) They left out the ‘is’ and the comma, after ‘U.S.’
Given that this was only the first three sentences – a mere 54 words – and the Sun made so many errors, there is no point in continuing. It’s a very poor transcript, chockful of flaws, some deliberate; a complete fiasco disguised as “reporting”, and the soundtrack was further edited and spliced, and probably mischievously so. No doubt the work of Trump-hating millennials who don’t give a rat’s ass. There is no reason to trust anything else in it. Trump’s opinion that it is Fake News is perfectly justified.
As usual – no lie.