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Tue Mar 18, 2025, 07:26 PM Mar 18

Trump Goes on Crazed Rant Over Journalists Saying He's Not a King [View all]





https://newrepublic.com/post/192852/donald-trump-rant-journalists-not-king

https://archive.ph/SFTBb

Donald Trump called out two reporters at The Atlantic by name in his latest tirade against media outlets that are willing to report fairly on him. In what is becoming a more regular occurrence, the president posted yet another meltdown directed at the press on his Truth Social Monday. This time, he targeted specific journalists by name, Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer, seemingly over an article they published earlier this month about his dreams of despotism.

The president claimed that the “Third Rate Magazine, ‘The Atlantic,’ that made up the ‘Suckers and Losers’ Hoax about me and the Military, and refused to even acknowledge the vast horde of people who emphatically denied this FAKE STORY,” had requested an interview with him. Trump included his strongly worded reply, which was a list of smears and grievances.



“Ashley Parker is not capable of doing a fair and unbiased interview. She is a Radical Left Lunatic, and has been as terrible as is possible for as long as I have known her,” he wrote. “To this date, she doesn’t even know that I won the Presidency THREE times. If you have some other reporter, let us know, but Ashley is not capable or competent enough to understand the intricacies of High Level politics.

“Likewise, Michael Scherer has never written a fair story about me, only negative, and virtually always LIES,” Trump continued. “The Atlantic is doing terribly, losing a fortune, and will hopefully fold up and be gone in the not too distant future. It has absolutely no credibility, and would be far better off, in terms of ‘journalism,’ to cease publication,” Trump wrote. “Nevertheless, when you have a writer with intelligence, competence, and fairness, please let me know!”

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Manifestly crazy mr715 Mar 18 #1
Bonkers creon Mar 18 #2
Always the victim. LaRaven Mar 18 #3
I thought you wrote "pooped himself" BigmanPigman Mar 18 #7
🤣 LaRaven Mar 19 #41
"No politician in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly." dalton99a Mar 18 #4
Mad as a Hatter sheshe2 Mar 18 #5
Always the victim, Blappy Mar 18 #6
He is stark raving malaise Mar 18 #8
Toddler having a tantrum. His vocabulary is about Ilsa Mar 18 #24
a MAGA lamented online yesterday... He's still the president, he should be shown respect. But he gets act like he's 6? Demovictory9 Mar 18 #9
Actually DENVERPOPS Mar 18 #33
Intricacies. He learned a new word. Norbert Mar 18 #10
AND...this is how we know he did not write that birdographer Mar 18 #12
Hey Birdo DENVERPOPS Mar 18 #35
Please ...GO AWAY.. ellise Mar 18 #11
Nope but DENVERPOPS Mar 18 #36
Accepting him at his word this would mean that this term as F47 is illegitimate because you can only in2herbs Mar 18 #13
Same grievances....... BeneteauBum Mar 18 #14
In any other world xuplate Mar 18 #15
He won it three times....Hmmmm Sogo Mar 18 #16
Oh, I don't know DENVERPOPS Mar 18 #37
The fluidity of dementia, it is a beautiful thing to behold! Aussie105 Mar 18 #17
I agree with some others DENVERPOPS Mar 18 #38
Damn. Should I be getting The Atlantic? Anything he hates that much Maru Kitteh Mar 18 #18
Yes! SCantiGOP Mar 18 #22
the Atlantic is great DENVERPOPS Mar 18 #39
Never king. Can't even be queen usonian Mar 18 #19
Oh my DENVERPOPS Mar 18 #23
I was going to say "good photoshopping" but it ain't good. usonian Mar 18 #29
Soon, DENVERPOPS Mar 18 #20
"Suckers and losers" not a hoax. Trump said oasis Mar 18 #21
It is certainly not a hoax from the perspective of the Atlantic's story about it AZJonnie Mar 19 #42
Let's see---Hillary Clinton had THREE MILLION MORE VOTES than you, niyad Mar 18 #25
Stephen Miller sure is writing a lot of posts lately. Maru Kitteh Mar 18 #26
That's the highest recommendation choie Mar 18 #27
Holy crap, look at that demented, old bastard. LudwigPastorius Mar 18 #28
Don the Mistreated, King of MAGATS rickyhall Mar 18 #30
Sundowning events Pizza slice Mar 18 #31
It seems to me most of Trump's posts are ghost written Ilikepurple Mar 18 #32
Chrissy Teigen was right. Dulcinea Mar 18 #34
Trump is criminally insane. Initech Mar 18 #40
Remember when they took Obama's Blackberry away? Yeah. Why is this idiot allowed to post? mucholderthandirt Mar 19 #43
What a sick asshole. spanone Mar 19 #44
A ringing endorsement for the Atlantic, and for both journalists, who remind us what that word should mean ... eppur_se_muova Mar 19 #45
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