The New York Post’s Nov. 16 cover appeared to mock former President Donald Trump’s primetime address announcing his 2024 presidential campaign.
The Post reduced Trump’s primetime announcement to “Florida man makes announcement” at the bottom of the cover and relegated to page 26 of the paper. Likewise, the Post’s website featured negative headlines about Trump’s announcement, such as “Trump 2024 announcement gets panned on Twitter,” below the heading “Trump makes it official.” (RELATED: Trump Announces 2024 Presidential Run)
Today’s cover: Major NYC gang takedown includes man who ‘shot 3-year-old’ https://t.co/j3pUMHphlK pic.twitter.com/QdrNuYrA7u
— New York Post (@nypost) November 16, 2022
Screenshot of The New York Post website
The paper’s editorial board wrote Sunday in a headline “this midterm miss is all because of him,” referring to Trump. They hit Trump for blaming Republican Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell for the GOP’s midterm performance, saying “pretty much every word out of Trump’s mouth these days is a lie.”
A Nov. 10 New York Post cover labeled the former president “Trumpy Dumpty”, generating widespread buzz after a disappointing midterm election for Republicans. On the cover, they wrote “Don (who couldn’t build a wall) had a great fall – can all the GOP’s men put the party back together again?” Multiple Post columnists blamed the poor midterm showing on Trump and pleaded with the GOP to move past him in that edition of the paper.
Immediately following the midterms, the publication ran a cover with “DeFuture” prominently displayed below a picture of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis celebrating his reelection victory with his family. Text displayed on the cover touted DeSantis as a “young GOP star” for winning in Florida by nearly 20 points against former GOP Gov.-turned Democrat Charlie Crist.
Today’s cover: Ron DeSantis shows he’s future of the GOP https://t.co/Ja9rO579r4 pic.twitter.com/9Px1KBH1MP
— New York Post (@nypost) November 9, 2022
Trump once labeled the Post his “favorite newspaper,” and it is one of many news outlets owned by Rupert Murdoch’s newscorp.