DESPERATION! NY Times Columnist BEGS Pres. Trump to Denounce Him in Order to Increase the Papers Viewership "I Just Feel Left out"

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof on Monday begged President Donald Trump to denounce him.



Kristof appeared on MSNBC to discuss his Saturday Times op-ed, titled "Our Addiction to Trump."



"In your piece, you jokingly asked Trump to go after you like he has [the Times‘] Maggie Haberman, [CNN's] Don Lemon, my colleague Charles Todd. Why?" MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle asked.



"I just feel left out. What am I going to tell my kids? That here he is denouncing all these other people and you know," Kristof said.



"Makes you feel like chopped liver," Ruhle interjected.



"Yeah. It's like being left off the enemies list back in the Nixon years," Kristof said.



Kristof's op-ed discussed the symbiotic relationship between Trump and the media.



"News organizations, especially cable television channels, feed off Trump — like oxpeckers on a rhino’s back — for he is part of our business model in 2018," Kristof wrote. "It’s not optimal to have as president an authoritarian who denounces journalists as enemies of the people, but he has given us a sense of mission and a ‘Trump bump.' Every time he denounces us we get more subscriptions."