'Angry' Trump Fumes At New York Times Over Reporting On His Helicopter Story

Former President Donald Trump went after The New York Times on Friday as he ripped the paper’s coverage of a wild helicopter story that he’d told at a rambling press conference.

The Republican presidential nominee, in the presser Thursday, had said that he once went “down in a helicopter” with Willie Brown, a former San Francisco mayor, amid an emergency landing.

Brown has since disputed the claim, describing Trump’s story as “ obviously wrong .” He told CNN that such an episode with Trump “never happened, period.”

“And I think my memory is probably better than his,” Brown said.

Nate Holden, a former Los Angeles City Council member, told Politico that he thinks the former president confused him with Brown in the story.

Trump — in what the Times’ Maggie Haberman described as an “angry” phone call — “excoriated” the paper for its reporting on the press conference and insisted that Brown was the one in the helicopter.

“We have the flight records of the helicopter,” said Trump, adding that the aircraft landed “in a field” and that he was “probably going to sue” over the Times’ coverage.

Haberman reported that Trump used “a sing-song voice” to mock the Times’ request for the helicopter flight records.

The call reportedly came as Trump’s plane was diverted due to a mechanical issue before landing safely while on his way to a Friday campaign rally in Bozeman, Montana.

He later took to his Truth Social platform to slam the paper and “Two Failing New York Times ‘reporters’” for having “questioned” the helicopter story, while doubling down on his claim that it was Brown in the aircraft.

“So far they are about as accurate as they are with their other stories about me,” wrote Trump, who referred to Haberman as “Maggot Hagermann” and suggested that the paper might have to apologize for its reporting.

Trump, in a separate Truth Social post , suggested that records and witnesses could back up his helicopter story, without providing evidence via the platform.

Read more at The New York Times .