By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2025-03-18 16:17:24 | Updated at 2025-03-20 15:51:30
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President Donald Trump berated a reporter from Atlantic Magazine after she requested an interview.
Trump is revisiting his frustration with the publication after it dedicated itself to stopping his second term.
'Ashley Parker is not capable of doing a fair and unbiased interview. She is a Radical Left Lunatic, and has been as terrible as is possible for as long as I have known her,' Trump responded on social media.
He additionally noted that Parker 'doesn’t even know that I won the Presidency THREE times,' in an effort to again challenge the 2020 election results.
'If you have some other reporter, let us know, but Ashley is not capable or competent enough to understand the intricacies of High Level politics,' he continued.
Parker, a former Washington Post journalist, joined the Atlantic along with another former Washington Post reporter Michael Scherer, who Trump also criticized.
'Likewise, Michael Scherer has never written a fair story about me, only negative, and virtually always LIES,' he added.
The president also ripped the Atlantic Magazine as 'Third Rate,' recalling the election-era story claiming he described members of the military killed in World War II as 'suckers and losers.'
'The Atlantic is doing terribly, losing a fortune, and will hopefully fold up and be gone in the not too distant future. It has absolutely no credibility, and would be far better off, in terms of “journalism,” to cease publication,' he continued.
President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office
Journalist Ashley Parker from The Atlantic Magazine
Trump did not entirely rule out an interview with the magazine, but demanded to hear from a different journalist.
'[W]hen you have a writer with intelligence, competence, and fairness, please let me know!' he concluded.
Trump's relationship with the Atlantic Magazine has always been fraught.
In early 2024, the magazine published an entire issue in warning of the disastrous consequences of Trump's reelection.
'Our team of brilliant writers makes a convincingly dispositive case that both Trump and Trumpism pose an existential threat to America and to the ideas that animate it,' editor Jeffrey Goldberg wrote, pleading with American voters to stop Trump from winning again.
Laurene Powell Jobs photographed at The Atlantic Festival in Washington, D.C. in September 2019
Goldberg remained shocked and horrified over a 2015 comment that Trump made about one of his critics, former Sen. John McCain.
'I couldn’t understand his soul sickness: How does a person come to such a rotten, depraved thought?' Goldberg mused in a lengthy opinion article condemning the idea of Trump returning to office.
'America survived the first Trump term, though not without sustaining serious damage. A second term, if there is one, will be much worse,' he continued.
President Trump has long criticized The Atlantic Magazine for its unprecedented opposition to his political career.
In 2020, Trump ripped Lauren Powell Jobs for funding the magazine, helping keep the publication alive.
'Steve Jobs would not be happy that his wife is wasting money he left her on a failing Radical Left Magazine that is run by a con man (Goldberg) and spews FAKE NEWS & HATE,' Trump wrote in September 2020.
