Jeffrey A. Zucker, the president of CNN, has been at the center of a media firestorm since President Trump started<br />singling out the cable network as the country’s leading distributor of that favorite Trump phrase “fake news.”<br />On Thursday — an hour before Mr. Trump repeated his attacks at a feisty White House news conference — Mr. Zucker divulged<br />that he and the president had not spoken since the final weeks of last year.<br />“That,” Mr. Zucker replied, “was not a good conversation.”<br />Over a filet mignon and Diet Coke in Midtown Manhattan, Mr. Zucker, who helped introduce Mr. Trump to the masses when he bought “The Apprentice” for NBC, said<br />that the president’s relentless criticism had been worrying enough that he commissioned a survey of public attitudes about CNN’s reputation.<br />“I would be your biggest fan in the world if you treated me right,” Mr. Trump told<br />CNN’s White House reporter, Jim Acosta, at the news conference on Thursday
