Gutfeld Ridicules NYT for Trying to Make an Old Trump Story a New Scandal

Nicholas Fondacaro | May 12, 2019
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After The New York Times published their story last week about President Trump losing $1 billion in the 80s and 90s, did you feel like you already knew about that? So did everyone else, because Trump’s financial problems during that time were well documented. So, during his late Saturday night show, Fox News Channel host Greg Gutfeld ripped into the Times for trying to drop “a bombshell revealed to millions of people on national TV over a decade and a half ago.”

“But I guess when you can’t find any news to match your delusions, you’ll make anything else news…,” Gutfeld ripped, after suggesting the paper just discovered the popularity of the movie Home Alone and the singer Vanilla Ice.

Playing a clip from Trump’s reality TV show, The Apprentice, Gutfeld pointed out that Trump admitted to what the Times found back in 2004. “About 13 years ago, I was seriously in trouble. I was billions of dollars in debt. But I thought back and I won bigly,” Trump said.

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