U.S. President Donald Trump talks to members of the media as he visits the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 17, 2025. Jim Watson/Pool via REUTERS
President Donald Trump lashed out Monday afternoon at the award-winning magazine The Atlantic, calling the publication "third rate" and even lashing out at two of its staffers, who he decried as "terrible" biased and members of the "radical left."
Trump took to his Truth Social platform on Monday to rage against The Atlantic for asking him to sit down for an interview.
"Third Rate Magazine, 'The Atlantic,' that made up the 'Suckers and Losers' Hoax about me and the Military, and refused to even acknowledge the vast horde of people who emphatically denied this FAKE STORY, has asked me to do an interview, Trump wrote.
The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg cited anonymous sources with direct knowledge of the president's comments to report that Trump in 2018 canceled a scheduled visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris "because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead."
"In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, 'Why should I go to that cemetery? It's filled with losers," according to the report. "In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as 'suckers' for getting killed."
On Monday afternoon, Trump lashed out at staff writer Ashley Parker, a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and former White House bureau chief for The Washington Post.
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"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," wrote Trump.
Trump took issue with Parker over her resistance to accepting his baseless assertion he won the 2020 presidential election over Joe Biden.
"To this date, she doesn’t even know that I won the Presidency THREE times," Trump wrote. "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."
But the commander-in-chief — known for his lengthy social media screeds, wasn't done with the magazine, turning his ire on another staff writer and Washington Post alum.
"Likewise, Michael Scherer has never written a fair story about me, only negative, and virtually always LIES. 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. Nevertheless, when you have a writer with intelligence, competence, and fairness, please let me know!" Trump concluded.