On November 3, President Donald Trump said on X that The Daily Mail misrepresented his remarks at a presidential news conference.
Trump wrote that, while noting the "beautiful Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool" had opened "yesterday," he joked, "I'm going to name it, "TRUMP."" He accused the outlet of treating the joke as literal and cited what he called their headline: "Trump delivers final midterms speech to just 60 people at the renovated Reflecting Pool and threatens a major rename."
Rejecting that characterization, Trump said the event was a news conference closed to the public and intended "Just Reporters," not a "Final Midterms Speech" with "only 60 people." "It wasn't a "Final Midterms Speech" that only had 60 people, it was a NEWS CONFERENCE, nobody was invited, it was closed to the Public — Just Reporters," he wrote. He added that his final midterms speech occurred the previous day in Iowa and Kansas, claiming "we had 50,000 people." "I said, very clearly, "I'm joking."" He concluded the post by attacking "Fake News" and signing, "President DONALD J. TRUMP."
Source: X
