Trump Publicly Responds to Interview Request from 'Third Rate' Mainstream Media Outlet: 'Absolutely No Credibility'

In 2020, The Atlantic published a scathing article about then-President Donald Trump. On Monday, Trump responded in kind.

With two months remaining before the 2020 presidential election, The Atlantic claimed that Trump referred to American soldiers who lost their lives in service as “losers” and “suckers,” allegedly refusing to visit a military cemetery where fallen U.S. soldiers from World War I are buried.

Trump has repeatedly denied making such remarks.

On Monday, Trump publicly addressed the magazine’s request for an interview with the same president it had attempted to discredit.

“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 on Truth Social.

He then elaborated on his response, indicating he might reconsider if a more suitable journalist were offered.

“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. 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,” he added.

He also criticized another journalist, saying, “Likewise, Michael Scherer has never written a fair story about me, only negative, and virtually always LIES.”

Trump argued that the publication is struggling and suggested its decline was inevitable.

“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 wrote.

Ashley Parker, a former Washington Post journalist, claimed in a September analysis that Trump’s rhetoric created a “distorted, warped and, at times, absurdist portrait” of America and accused him of dishonesty.

She asserted that Trump misrepresented gang violence in Aurora, Colorado, mere weeks before multiple Venezuelan gang members were arrested in connection with a kidnapping, as reported by Newsweek.

Trump has frequently challenged media narratives, as exemplified in a recent exchange with an NBC reporter, highlighted by Fox News.

During a media event at the Kennedy Center, a reporter attempted to ask Trump a follow-up question.

“Who are you with?” Trump inquired.

“Sir, I’m with NBC,” the reporter responded.

“I don’t want to talk to NBC anymore. I think you’re so discredited,” Trump replied.