Donald Trump calls on The New York Times to apologize for “years of false reporting on Trump.”

President-elect Donald Trump called on The New York Times to “apologize” on Tuesday, saying the paper had “so misunderstood” the “years of” reporting on him.

“Will the failing New York Times apologize to its readers for so misrepresenting years of ‘Trump’ reporting? “They write such false ‘garbage’ knowing full well how wrong it is and only want to demean,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

He also appeared to call Maggie Haberman, a senior political correspondent for The New York Times who has focused much of her reporting on the president-elect.

“They don’t do fact-checking because facts don’t matter to them. I don’t think I’ve had a really good story in the NYT in years, and yet I still won the most consequential presidential election in the US in record fashion.” DECADES. WHERE’S THE APOLOGY?” Trump continued.

President-elect Trump speaks at a meeting of the House Republican Conference at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on November 13, 2024 (Allison Robbert-Pool/Getty Images)

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The Times responded in a statement to Fox News Digital.

“As an independent news organization, The New York Times does not produce stories that are ‘good’ or ‘bad,’ only reports that are true. Maggie Haberman and her colleagues have an unmatched track record of providing in-depth and authoritative reporting. Everyone.” “The president has complaints about the reporting, but this work has been widely recognized as fair, accurate and unwavering,” the spokesman said.

Before the election, Trump spoke to Fox News’ Howard Kurtz and the then-presidential candidate also criticized the New York Times.

“The New York Times is, in my opinion, completely corrupt,” he said.

The company came under fire on social media for fact-checking RFK Jr.’s claim that Froot Loops uses different ingredients in its U.S. product than in its Canadian product.

“Mr. Kennedy singled out Froot Loops as an example of a product with too many artificial ingredients and questioned why the Canadian version contains less than the U.S. version,” the Times report said. “But he was wrong. The ingredient list is roughly the same, although in Canada there are natural dyes from blueberries and carrots, while the US product contains red dye 40, yellow dye 5 and blue dye 1, as well as butylated hydroxytoluene, or BHT, a laboratory-made chemical, which according to the ingredients label is used “for freshness.”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former President Trump shake hands during a campaign rally in Glendale, Arizona, on August 23. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images))

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According to the statement submitted to the Washington Post From Kennedy spokeswoman Stefanie Spear, Kennedy was referring to the differences in food coloring in the American and Canadian versions of the cereal.

The NYT’s fact-check, which appeared to prove rather than disprove Kennedy’s point about the use of artificial ingredients in the US version of the cereal, attracted critics to mock the newspaper.

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Podcast host Joe Rogan commented on the fact check on one of his shows.

“The fact check is so stupid because the fact check says it’s not accurate, they have the same ingredients… except for these harmful chemicals,” he said. “It’s the damn New York Times.”

Fox News’ Kristine Parks contributed to this report.