The New York Times Hits Back At Trump's 'Name-Calling' Of Female Reporter

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Huff Post

Nov 27, 2025, 08:00 AM EST


The New York Times on Wednesday defended one of its female reporters, Katie Rogers, who became Donald Trump’s latest target after co-authoring a piece exploring the president’s health and aging.

The article written by Rogers and Dylan Freedman, titled “Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office,” cited an analysis showing that the president has decreased his public appearances by 39% and has held a shorter schedule than he used to by this point in his first presidency. The report also noted that Trump has been spotted dozing off during meetings.

Trump blasted the Times on social media over the article which he described as a “hit piece.” “This cheap ‘RAG’ is truly an ‘ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE,’” he wrote on his Truth Social platform. “The writer of the story, Katie Rogers, who is assigned to write only bad things about me, is a third rate reporter who is ugly, both inside and out.”

A Times spokesperson hit back at Trump’s words, declaring that the article is “accurate and built on first hand reporting of the facts,” and pushed back against Trump’s attack on Rogers. “Name-calling and personal insults don’t change that, nor will our journalists hesitate to cover this administration in the face of intimidation tactics like this,” the spokesperson said in a statement on X.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nyt-responds-to-trump-attack-katie-rogers_n_6928418ae4b00aca68d4718e?origin=home-whats-happening-unit

[jaymac]

1. GOOD!!

we need more of this..........standing up to his lies and misstatements........not to mention the other parrots he has touting his agenda

[popsdenver]

19. Too late for me

I got so tired of seeing trash talking articles about Biden and other dems in both the Washington Post and New York Times, I cancelled my subscription to both of them..........They are trying like others to play both sides of the street to try and retain subscribers from both the left and right........instead of just like reporting the TRUTH and FACTS like they used to.
No one in either paper is smart enough to realize that Trumphumpers only watch Fox News and listen to RW radio, and don't read either the times or Wapost.......
I can't tell you the number of people I know who have gotten pissed off, for the same reason as I did, and have cancelled their subscriptions to one or the other, or more often both........

[Roy Rolling]

25. I'm one of them

I cancelled them both.

[Ranting Randy]

30. We killed our subscriptions years ago as well

They both used to be something we'd look forward to. But the garbage reporting was something we needed to walk away from. Instead. we support reality based sites like DU, The Guardian, Propublica, Talking Points Memo, etc.

[NNadir]

34. We canceled. There is only so much Maggie Haberman, MAGA fan girl, that one can read without vomiting.

All the news fit to ignore, that's the NY Times of modern times.

[chouchou]

2. ..And that "Thing" passes as the United States President?

He's consistently and constantly embarrasses all of us.

[msongs]

3. childish and petty. he has change since his (....) pin up companion started wearing wide brim hats lol nt

[Irish_Dem]

26. What are you saying here, sounds like an interesting idea.

What do you think it means that M is wearing wide brim hats?

[msongs]

35. so he cant get at her in public

[Irish_Dem]

36. Yes this is one possibility.

Or she is receiving from constant facial surgery and botox.
Or she is using a body double.
She did that one time that I recognized.

[spooky3]

4. better late than never, I guess. nt

[LoisB]

5. IT definitely has no room to call anyone "ugly". He is the standard-bearer for "ugly inside and

out".

[paleotn]

7. Generalissimo Poopy Pants.

He smells too.

[Cha]

11. Or "Piggy".

[paleotn]

6. NYT finding a backbone perhaps? Hope so.

Die faster ya bastard!!!!

[Bengus81]

38. The only backbone any of these corporations find is when it hits THEIR cash flow

As in......Disney and their HULU brand

[WOLFMAN87]

8. Times is late to the game.

After sane washing this moron for a decade should we feel good that they are standing up to the Orange Julius?

[Cha]

10. Yeah, I know.. But I'll take what I can get for Truth Telling.. better

than the WaPo.

[Paladin]

14. Late to the game, as usual. (nt)

[JHB]

16. Late to the game and not acknowledging their own role in his rise

How many stories about Hillary's emails and Joe Biden's age?

[Paladin]

27. The two-faced, chickenshit legacy of a once-great newspaper.

The NYT will never recover from the massive slack they've cut for trump, while savaging Democrats. Equal parts of anger and sadness, from my standpoint.

[Cha]

9. lol.. Oh Fuck OFF POS Traitor, ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE.

[Justice matters.]

12. It's always projection with his stupid juvenile tantrums.

Pedonold projects what he unconsciously hates about himself.

And lucky for him, his idiotic cult consider that childish behavior as "strength"

[usonian]

13. Trump gets the last word in. (Not his LAST words)

[ificandream]

15. Great to see the Times strike back at the cheap tactics of Trump

Too many have let him get away with his babyish name-calling and stupid attacks. He's a weak little baby and the more we stand up to him the weaker he gets.

[niyad]

17. Hey, nyt, YOU helped create and support this orange vulgarian. YOU

could have written the truth about him from the beginning, but you chose not to.

[LoisB]

22. Amen.

[SaydiTom]

18. the NYT is in this position because they have let ALL of his prior shit pass without any real rebuke

and normalized everything

[ificandream]

32. No, they didn't.

In journalism school, students are taught that when writing news stories to keep it straight to the fact and leave out opinion and conclusions, even obvious ones. However, not everyone (especially right-wing media), adheres to that. Opinion pieces are different. The problem there is that when newspapers publish opinion pieces that you or I disagree with, it tends to make people think that newspapers believe that shit. Another good example is Maggie Haberman, whose "beat" has been essentially covering Trump. Trump knows this and has given her stuff no one else has had. Her book "Confidence Man" (a great read, by the way) is probably the best full portrait of his background up until the time it was published. I think an update now would be a good idea. I didn't used to think so, but I think the Times did get a little fogged by Trump (as did a lot of the media) when he first came aboard to run in 2016. But no one is fooled now. Real journalists have always held back some in drawing conclusions, but the Times laid out the facts even in 2016. The problem was that a lot of people, and not just the magas, didn't see it right away.

[SaydiTom]

39. How the New York Times uses weasel words to normalize authoritarianism

https://presswatchers.org/2025/09/how-the-new-york-times-uses-weasel-words-to-normalize-authoritarianism/


https://presswatchers.org/category/new-york-times/



https://prospect.org/2022/08/19/altercation-how-peter-bakers-feelings-become-news/




The sad fact is that there is nothing terribly out of character about the New York Times’s decision to publish a deceptive hit piece about New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, based on hacked data supplied by a noted eugenicist to whom they granted anonymity. The newsroom will go to extreme lengths to achieve its primary missions -- and one of them, most assuredly, is to take cheap shots at the left. You can see it almost daily – just this past week alone in a condescending article about Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s brave defense of democracy, and a celebratory story about Trump’s achievements that likened dissenting views to "asterisks" on his legacy.

And you can trace it back to the very top: to editor Joe Kahn and his boss, publisher A.G. Sulzberger. As I’ve exhaustively chronicled in my coverage of the New York Times, the newsroom is constantly under pressure from its leaders to prove that it is not taking sides in politics -- or democracy, for that matter. And because printing the truth is seen as punching right, that requires expending a lot of effort to punch left. Punching left becomes the holy grail. https://criticalread.substack.com/p/the-sad-sad-state-of-the-new-york



Parker Molloy, in her newsletter, points out:
When Times columnist Jamelle Bouie had the temerity to post "i think you should tell readers if your source is a nazi," he was apparently forced to delete it for violating the paper's social media guidelines. Think about that for a moment. The Times will protect the anonymity of a white supremacist, but will silence their own Black columnist for accurately identifying him.

[ificandream]

40. But were they news stories or opinion pieces?

That makes a huge difference.

As for the stories about Mamdani, I didn't see those. But again, if they were analysis stories, it's the original writer of said opinion that's the most accountable, not strictly the paper.

On your sentence "The Times will protect the anonymity of a white supremacist, but will silence their own Black columnist for accurately identifying him" I don't know the full details, but I'll just say generally that newspaper policy in instances such as this is a lot more complicated than many think. My criticism in 2016 that the Wikileaks leaks reported so extensively by the Times should never have been used since stories quoted them directly and made them the news when the sources could have been easily tampered with. Same is true with this stuff about Mamdami. If I was making an editorial judgment, I'd allow for stories about the hacked material with very general descriptions of what was leaked, but I wouldn't allow for extensive quoting and making it the source. If that's what happened with the Mamdami leaks, that was not good, IMO.

I hope I haven't gone too far off the trail. If I did, I apologize. I don't like the quick assumptions that everything is fake news. That's what Trump wants you to believe.

[Gimpyknee]

20. The problem is the Times cited facts.

Trump and his MAGA cult could care less about facts.

[PSPS]

23. couldn't care less

[Orrex]

21. Why doesn't he just fucking die already?

[Aussie105]

24. Some media are looking to the future

and realize Trump's future isn't good, and they really want to retain some relevance after he is gone.
They don't want to go into obscurity along with him and his followers.

The facts they quote speak for themselves.

Trump is getting lower on energy, takes naps whenever he needs to, and is winding down.
His demeanour screams . . . I don't really care or want to know anymore.

Or in more appropriate language for a sulking 5 year old: Leave me alone, I hate you all!

[Katinfl]

33. He is getting worse each day.

His outbursts are more frequent, his language is nastier. I always envisioned him losing it entirely at the podium……..name calling, swearing, etc……that he will literally be rushed off the stage. IOW, a real breakdown, in real time, on full public display. That’s my dream. Even then, I’m not sure it would matter to MAGA but maybe the GOP would wake up. I can dream, can’t I ?

[lark]

28. Every once in awhile, NYT tells the absolute truth. The rest of the time, not so much.

I quit subscribing to them years ago, but I really like the occasional article like this.

[mdbl]

29. They call that "hitting back"?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

31. There is a clear pattern-trump cannot deal with questions from female reporters

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[Quanto Magnus]

37. And yet

there's hesitancy across media right now....