The back-and-forth banter was cyclical insofar as the New York Times would write something negative about Trump then he would reply with a criticism of the publication. This feud appeared to have resumed with a social media post by the president-elect on his Truth Social account. This time, Trump demanded an apology from the Times for, in Trump’s opinion, years of incorrect news coverage of him. 

“Will the failing New York Times apologize to its readers for getting years of ‘Trump’ coverage so wrong,” the president-elect posted early Tuesday morning. “They write such phony ‘junk,’ knowing full well how incorrect it is, only meaning to demean.”

Trump’s anger at the times seems to be a reaction to Times columnist Maggie Haberman, who has a long history of writing about the president-elect. Haberman also wrote a book about Trump, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America. Haberman’s social media feed regularly and consistently includes articles about Trump. Trump’s recent post referred to her as “Magot Hagerman” instead of her actual name.

“Magot Hagerman, a third rate writer and fourth rate intellect, writes story after story, always terrible, and yet I almost never speak to her,” Trump posted. “They do no fact checking, because facts don’t matter to them. I don’t believe I’ve had a legitimately good story in the NYT for years, AND YET I WON, IN RECORD FASHION, THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN DECADES. WHERE IS THE APOLOGY?”