Trump Targets Maggie Haberman After New York Times 9/11 Report

The president’s public tirade marks a sharp escalation in attacks on a reporter and includes explicit threats of lawsuits and demands for her earnings.

Overview

On Friday, August 28, President Trump posted a profane tirade on Truth Social that called New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman a “stalker” and a “scammer” and demanded she turn over money earned from reporting about him.
The outburst followed Times reporting that Trump was expected to attend a Pentagon ceremony rather than the National September 11 Memorial in Manhattan and that Vice President J.D. Vance was nominated to represent the White House at Ground Zero.
The Times said travel logistics, including a scheduled departure to Doonbeg, Ireland, and the Memorial’s long-standing policy barring elected officials from giving remarks helped shape the reported plan for a Pentagon appearance.
Trump threatened legal action against The New York Times and the Pulitzer Prize organization and accused Haberman of using fake sources, but the reporting on the Pentagon attendance and the Memorial’s no-speaker policy has not been overturned.
Haberman is a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and the episode continues a pattern of confrontations between the president and the press, a dynamic that could prompt further legal claims, newsroom scrutiny of sources, and renewed debate over presidential media attacks.