For years, the New York Times and President-elect Donald Trump have feuded. The noted left-wing news publication regularly published news and opinion articles that were hypercritical of Trump, seemingly ever since he entered politics as a presidential candidate.
The back-and-forth banter was cyclical insofar as the New York Times would write something negative about Trump then he would reply with a criticism of the publication. This feud appeared to have resumed with a social media post by the president-elect on his Truth Social account. This time, Trump demanded an apology from the Times for, in Trump’s opinion, years of incorrect news coverage of him.
“Will the failing New York Times apologize to its readers for getting years of ‘Trump’ coverage so wrong,” the president-elect posted early Tuesday morning. “They write such phony ‘junk,’ knowing full well how incorrect it is, only meaning to demean.”
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Trump’s anger at the times seems to be a reaction to Times columnist Maggie Haberman, who has a long history of writing about the president-elect. Haberman also wrote a book about Trump, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America. Haberman’s social media feed regularly and consistently includes articles about Trump. Trump’s recent post referred to her as “Magot Hagerman” instead of her actual name.
“Magot Hagerman, a third rate writer and fourth rate intellect, writes story after story, always terrible, and yet I almost never speak to her,” Trump posted. “They do no fact checking, because facts don’t matter to them. I don’t believe I’ve had a legitimately good story in the NYT for years, AND YET I WON, IN RECORD FASHION, THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN DECADES. WHERE IS THE APOLOGY?”
Previously, Trump called the New York Times, along with the Washington Post, as “fake news” in Jan. 2017, over what he believed to be biased and dishonest news coverage about his candidacy, presidential campaign, and early days of his presidency.
“The failing @nytimes has been wrong about me from the very beginning. Said I would lose the primaries, then the general election,” Trump posted on Twitter at the time. “FAKE NEWS!”
It is also not the first time he demanded the Times apologize, also doing so in Jan. 2017.
“The [sic] coverage about me in the @nytimes and the @washingtonpost gas been so false and angry that the times actually apologized to its,” Trump posted in the first of two consecutive tweets. He continued with “..dwindling subscribers and readers. They got me wrong right from the beginning and still have not changed course, and never will. DISHONEST.”
Earlier this month, Trump’s attorneys sent a letter to lawyers for the New York Times (and Penguin Random House) seeking $10 billion in damages for publishing “false and defamatory statements.”