US President Donald Trump has launched another personal attack on a female journalist. This time, he targeted a Pulitzer Prize-winning White House correspondent with a derogatory nickname and threatening legal action against her on Truth Social.
Donald Trump slams female journalist in new post
Truth Social became the platform for Donald Trump’s most recent tirade against the press on March 14. The president posted an insult-laden message about Maggie Haberman, a White House correspondent for The New York Times who has covered him extensively for years.
In the post, Trump deliberately misspelled Haberman’s name while calling her a “SLEAZEBAG writer” and accusing her of publishing false information about him. He wrote that Haberman “fully knows and understands that the exact opposite of anything she says is usually the truth.” Trump also shared a photograph of the journalist alongside his written attack.
Beyond the name-calling, he suggested he might take formal action against Haberman. Donald Trump mentioned he was “thinking of adding Maggot, and some of her ‘associates,’ into my Florida based Lawsuit against The Times.” Further, despite indicating that the lawsuit “seems to be proceeding nicely,” he provided no specific details about the case. He signed off the message with the usual “President DJT.”
Maggie Haberman, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for her reporting on Trump’s advisers and their ties to Russia, has not publicly responded to the attack. It remains unclear what specifically prompted Trump’s post about the female journalist.
Haberman’s most recent story about Trump was published more than a week before the attack, on March 5, focusing on the firing of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. The journalist later appeared on CNN on March 12, discussing the Trump administration’s handling of the Iran war alongside Kaitlan Collins, another White House correspondent who has frequently been the target of Trump’s criticism, too.
Haberman and her New York Times colleague Jonathan Swan have reportedly been working on a new book about the president. Haberman previously authored the 2022 biography “Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America.”
