U.S. President Donald Trump has announced plans to sue The New York Times for $15 billion, accusing the paper of defamation, libel, and acting as a partisan tool of the Democratic Party.
“The New York Times has been allowed to freely lie, smear, and defame me for far too long, and that stops NOW!” Trump declared in a fiery Truth Social post on Monday.
He said the lawsuit, to be filed in Florida, would hold the newspaper accountable for what he called years of bias and “political warfare masquerading as journalism.”
Trump singled out the Times’ 2024 endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris, calling it “unprecedented” and “blatantly partisan.”
“Their endorsement of Kamala Harris was splashed on the very front page—something absolutely unheard of!” he wrote.
The former president also accused mainstream outlets of using “a highly sophisticated system of document and visual alteration” to smear him, though he provided no evidence for the claim.
The New York Times has not yet responded to the lawsuit announcement.
This marks the latest in Trump’s long-running battles with major media organizations. In 2023, a judge dismissed his $100 million lawsuit against the Times and his niece, Mary Trump, over the publication of his tax records in a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigation.
That same year, Trump also lost a $475 million defamation case against CNN, which he sued after the network compared his political rhetoric to that of Adolf Hitler.
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