Trump blasts New York Times: ‘They don’t write good’

Donald Trump took aim at yet another venerable news outlet Monday night, saying that The New York Times “is just absolutely a disaster” and “so unfair” to his campaign.

“The media is very unfair. They’re very biased,” Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity, parroting a claim he has made throughout his campaign. Trump also unveiled a new nickname for the established outlet: "The Failing New York Times."


“You look at The New York Times, I mean, the fail — I call it ‘The Failing New York Times’ because it won’t be in business for another, probably more than a few years unless somebody goes in and buys it and wants to lose a lot of money,” Trump said. “But The New York Times is so unfair. I mean they write three, four articles about me a day. No matter how good I do on something, they’ll never write good.”

The Republican nominee then took aim at Times presidential campaign correspondent Maggie Haberman, a former POLITICO reporter who has covered the Trump campaign extensively.

“They don’t write good. They have people over there, like Maggie Haberman and others, they don’t — they don’t write good,” he said. "They don’t know how to write good.”

The comments come just hours after the real estate mogul suggested that he might remove the press credentials for the Times in the general election, a move that would continue a string of attacks and attempted media blackouts by Trump and his campaign.

Since the onset of this election, the Trump campaign has banned nearly two dozen news outlets from campaign events, including BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post, Univision, The Des Moines Register and POLITICO. In June, Trump also revoked the press credentials for The Washington Post, citing concerns over their “very dishonest” coverage, a similar blackout to the one suggested against the Times.