In an early morning message Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump demanded to know if the "failing New York Times" will apologize to its readers for getting coverage about him "wrong" over the years.
He also slammed Times columnist Maggie Haberman, who often writes about him, in his Truth Social post where he referred to her as "Magot Hagerman."
"Will the failing New York Times apologize to its readers for getting years of "Trump" coverage so wrong," Trump said. "They write such phony 'junk,' knowing full well how incorrect it is, only meaning to demean."
He also targeted Haberman as a "third-rate writer and fourth-rate intellect," who "writes story after story, always terrible, and yet I almost never speak to her."
"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?" Trump concluded.
Haberman is the author of a book about Trump, "Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America" and often posts about him on her X account.
Trump did not specify what led to Tuesday morning's post about The Times and Haberman.
Haberman and colleague Jonathan Swan had two bylined stories about the president-elect on Monday. One concerned a potential role for Trump aide Natalie Harp and another detailed allegations that have been made about a key adviser, Boris Epshteyn.