"DACA is probably dead because the Democrats don’t really want it," President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter. | Evan Vucci/AP Photo Trump picks fight with Wall Street Journal over interview

President Donald Trump began Sunday morning by picking a fight with The Wall Street Journal, slamming the newspaper's coverage of a sit-down interview with him for getting a word wrong.

"The Wall Street Journal stated falsely that I said to them 'I have a good relationship with Kim Jong Un' (of N. Korea). Obviously I didn’t say that," the president wrote on Twitter. "I said 'I’d have a good relationship with Kim Jong Un,' a big difference. Fortunately we now record conversations with reporters ..."


He added: "... and they knew exactly what I said and meant. They just wanted a story. FAKE NEWS!"

For its part, the Journal is standing behind its transcript of the interview. Late Saturday night, the newspaper released audio from its interview with the president, which it claims proves that the president said "I" and not "I'd."



We have reviewed the audio from our interview with President Trump, as well as the transcript provided by an external service, and stand by what we reported. Here is audio of the portion the White House disputes. https://t.co/eWcmiHrXJg pic.twitter.com/bx9fGFWaPw — The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) January 14, 2018

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Twitter Saturday night that the Journal "misquoted" Trump, and she included what she said was the "official audio" of the interview.

Trump and his team have repeatedly picked fights both large and small with news organizations and journalists. These ongoing efforts to combat so-called "fake news" included a tweet from the president Saturday night that reupped the president's frustrations with Michael Wolff's book "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House." The tweet was Trump's first public statement since Hawaiians received a false alert about a ballistic missile attack on Saturday.

Addressing questions as to why the White House waited so long to raise their objections, Sanders said they first contacted the Journal on Friday to request a correction, when the paper published the full transcript.

"We first contacted the WSJ Friday morning and asked for a correction," Sanders wrote on Twitter. "They repeatedly refused to issue one despite clear audio evidence they'd misquoted POTUS."

The Wall Street Journal is part of Rupert Murdoch's media empire, which also includes Fox News. Different listeners to the tape have heard different things.

Tweeting about immigration, the president also slammed Democrats for "not really wanting" a deal that would make permanent for so-called Dreamers protections first granted by an Obama administration executive action known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

"DACA is probably dead because the Democrats don’t really want it, they just want to talk and take desperately needed money away from our Military," the president wrote on Twitter.

Last week, the president suggested at a bipartisan White House meeting that he would sign whatever compromise lawmakers could hash out. But since then, POLITICO reported Trump and the White House have rebuffed a deal reached by six senators that would grant Dreamers a pathway to citizenship in exchange for changes to other immigration laws and funding for the president's long-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.