“Fascinating to watch people writing books and major articles about me and yet they know nothing about me & have zero access. #FAKE NEWS!” the president wrote on Twitter. | Chris Kleponis/Getty Images Trump: Some people who write about me 'know nothing about me & have zero access'

President Donald Trump lashed out Tuesday morning at authors who write about him, posting on Twitter that their books and articles amount to “fake news” because “they know nothing about me.”

“Fascinating to watch people writing books and major articles about me and yet they know nothing about me & have zero access. #FAKE NEWS!” the president wrote on Twitter.


Trump did not make clear which authors, books or articles he was referring to, although he has been a regular critic of the news media, which he has often complained cover him unfairly. The president’s tweet coincided with the release of two prominent books related to the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton’s campaign memoir, titled “What Happened,” and NBC political reporter Katy Tur’s “Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History.”

Trump has sparred in the past with Tur, whom he has characterized as a “third-rate journalist” and singled out by name at rallies, sparking the ire of attendees. The president has referred diminutively to Tur as “little Katy,” and at a July 2016 news conference, he told her to “be quiet” as she sought to ask a follow-up question about his invitation to the Russian government to find emails deleted from the personal email server Clinton maintained as secretary of state.



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