# Maggie Haberman **Maggie Haberman** is a [[New York Times]] White House correspondent and CNN political analyst who has become the most prominent single reporter on the Trump beat — and, as a consequence, a recurring target of Trump's personal attacks. Her book *Confidence Man* (2022) drew on decades of covering Trump in New York tabloid politics and the presidency. Trump has referred to her as "Maggot Hagerman" and "a third-rate reporter" while simultaneously granting her interviews and access — a pattern consistent with [[Donald Trump]]'s broader relationship with the press, in which he attacks the institution while cultivating individual reporters whose coverage he believes he can influence. ## The September 2026 retraction demand On **September 11, 2026**, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the [[September 11 Attacks]], Haberman and three *Times* colleagues — Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Dana Rubinstein and Sally Goldenberg — reported that Trump would attend the Pentagon commemoration rather than the ceremony at the National September 11 Memorial in Manhattan, because he wanted to give a speech and the organizers do not allow them. Politicians have been barred from speaking at the World Trade Center ceremony since 2012. Trump responded on [[Truth Social]] by calling her **"Maggot Hagerman, the Fake Reporter from The Failing New York Times, an unattractive person both inside and out,"** saying she "made up" the story, and demanding a retraction with the threat of a suit against her and the paper. The *[[New York Times]]* communications team refused outright. Trump's own post restated the reporting's operative fact — that politicians are not permitted to speak at the New York ceremony — while denying that it explained where he went. The episode is a compact instance of the pattern: the disputed story is not contradicted, the reporter is attacked by name and appearance, a legal threat is attached, and no correction follows. Haberman matters for the KB not as a biographical subject but as a **structural marker**: she is the reporter Trump attacks by name most frequently, making her a recurring data point in the administration's rhetorical war on the press. Her coverage of Trump's cognitive state, legal exposure, and interpersonal dynamics has produced several entries in the KB's quote and event records. ## See Also - [[New York Times]] - [[Donald Trump]] - [[Media Capture]] - [[NYT Air Force One Subpoenas]]