KICK ‘EM WHEN THEY’RE UP, KICK ‘EM WHEN THEY’RE DOWN: Trump Unloads on Media Again.

“The failing @nytimes writes false story after false story about me,” he said on Twitter. “They don’t even call to verify the facts of a story. A Fake News Joke!”

“Some of the Fake News Media likes to say that I am not totally engaged in healthcare,” he added. “Wrong, I know the subject well & want victory for U.S.”

The story that seemed to have angered him was published online Tuesday night and on the Times’ front page Wednesday morning, saying “if Republicans do manage to broker a deal … it is not likely to be because of Mr. Trump’s involvement.”

“Until Tuesday afternoon, the president was largely on the sidelines as the fate of one of his most important campaign pledges played out,” the Times reported.

Trump hasn’t exactly been leading the repeal reform restore effort in Congress, but the NYT — and all the major media outlets, really — doesn’t have much goodwill left to draw on no matter what they’re charged with. And that situation is one entirely of their own making.