Donald Trump says all Republicans get branded with the 'racist card' by the press - but suggests he can win them back over with 'success' 

  • President Donald Trump sat down with Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly and discussed his contentious relationship with the media 
  • He said that he believed reporters weren't fair to anyone on his side of the aisle alleging 'they pull out the racist card' with all Republicans and conservatives 
  • Trump, however, believed he could patch up the rocky relationship with jobs, companies coming back to the U.S. and success  

By Nikki Schwab, U.s. Political Reporter For Dailymail.com

Published: 21:27 EST, 7 February 2017 | Updated: 21:35 EST, 7 February 2017

President Donald Trump again spoke of his contentious relationship with the press as he sat down with Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly, in a final interview segment that aired tonight. 

O'Reilly, a right-of-center analyst for the cable network, asked the president if his feelings were hurt when the media labeled him a 'hater.'  

'No, because they always do it. The first thing they do with the Republicans or conservatives is the racist card, they pull out the racist card, they always do that – it's not just me – I mean they do it with everybody,' the president said. 

Though Trump also believed his press coverage wouldn't always be so bad. 

'I think success will do that, I think jobs will do that, I think companies coming back into our country will do that,' Trump said of receiving more favorable coverage. 

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President Donald Trump talked about his contentious relationship with the media with Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly - explaining they pull the 'racist card' with all Republicans 

President Donald Trump talked about his contentious relationship with the media with Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly - explaining they pull the 'racist card' with all Republicans 

President Donald Trump (left) told Fox News' Bill O'Reilly (right) that he believed he could get more favorable press coverage once he sees some 'success' 

President Donald Trump (left) told Fox News' Bill O'Reilly (right) that he believed he could get more favorable press coverage once he sees some 'success' 

O'Reilly interviewed Trump over the weekend for a back-and-forth that was played before Sunday night's Super Bowl, with two additional segments coming out this week. 

The Fox News personality didn't initially ask Trump about his relationship with journalists, instead he wanted to  know what the new president's schedule looked like. 

Trump volunteered that he woke up around 5 a.m., and started his day by consuming news. 

'Well, I read, I read the papers, I see what's going on on television, I take a look, I see the lies,' Trump offered. 'You know the lies, that's another thing – I always got sort of good press, you know, as a business guy I got good press.'  

O'Reilly laughed and said 'I know.'   

'I have never – I call it, you know, fake news. Some of the networks and some of the papers, it's so dishonest – the level of dishonesty, where they'll take a story that should be good ... In fact sometimes I'll say, "Oh, this is going to be nice to read," I'll say, "Woah." And they will purposely totally change it away,' Trump said. 

'It's fake news,' Trump said, using a favorite term for coverage the president doesn't like. 

O'Reilly asked the POTUS why he thought the press was doing that.  

'Well, because I am on the other side of the equation,' Trump said. 'I don't think they've ever – they did it to Reagan, but not as much.'  

O'Reilly asked the question again. 'But why though, I don't understand.' 

'I don't, I just think that it's just the other side of the coin,' Trump said. 'You know, they call themselves progressives, which is a beautiful word, but it's not true. When you look at what happens,' the president continued, alleging all the reporters covering him are left-leaning. 

The Fox News host wanted to know if Trump thought reporters 'don't like you.'  

'I don't know. I think they don't like my, my – I don't think they like anybody on our side,' he said to O'Reilly, who's also on the political right.   

O'Reilly wanted to know if Trump ever thought he'd get a fair shot. 

'There are entities in this country that despise you and your administration,' O'Reilly pointed out. 'Can you, do you think you can ever convince them to take it down a bit?' 

Trump answered in the affirmative and then brought up again the fact that Time Magazine had made him 'Person of the Year,' also remarking how it used to be called 'Man of the Year.'  

 'But even on the cover where they named me they talked about a divided, divided nation,' Trump said. 'I don't think it's fair, maybe other people do think it's fair, but I think I can bring it back, yeah, I think success, jobs, lots of other things can bring it back.'  

O'Reilly also asked the new president what the biggest surprise has been thus far. 

'I think, the size, the magnitude of everything,' Trump answered. 'So I was a very big real estate person, I'd build a building for $500 million or $900 million dollars and here you look at an airplane contract where you can save $600 million on 90 planes.' 

Trump pointed to that early accomplishment, a deal he had negotiated with Lockheed Martin on fighter jets, and promised to take on the pharmaceutical 

 'But the magnitude of, you can do that at every level of government,' he said.

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