President Donald Trump continued his series of attacks on female journalists Friday by coming up with a degrading nickname for New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman.
In a Friday post on his Truth Social platform, the president slammed Haberman ― whom he deemed “Maggot Hagerman” ― and threatened to take legal action against her as part of his ongoing defamation lawsuit against The New York Times.
“Maggot Hagerman, just another SLEAZEBAG writer for The Failing New York Times, insists on writing false stories about me, even though she fully knows and understands that the exact opposite of anything she says is usually the truth,” Trump wrote atop a photo of Haberman.
“In any event, I’m thinking of adding Maggot, and some of her ‘associates,’ into my Florida based Lawsuit against The Times which, very happily, seems to be proceeding nicely,” he continued. “Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Haberman, a White House correspondent for the Times and a 2018 Pulitzer Prize winner, has previously been on the receiving end of social media insults and threats from Trump. In addition to her work at the newspaper, she’s also the author of the 2022 book “Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America,” which includes multiple interviews with the president.
