President Donald Trump railed against The New York Times for a print headline fumble in a Truth Social post on Saturday.
The New York Times itself made headlines on Friday when a viral misprint in its print version mistakenly called NATO the “North American Treaty Organization” instead of its correct name, the “North Atlantic Treaty Organization.” Trump took the opportunity to bash the newspaper on Saturday for the misprint.
“The Failing New York Times, whose lack of credibility, and their constant Fake News attacks on your favorite President, ME, has caused its circulation to absolutely PLUMMET, referred to our severely weakened and extremely unreliable ‘partner,’ NATO, as the North American Treaty Organization,” Trump said.
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Trump called the error a “very interesting mistake!” The article analyzed Trump’s continued threats to leave NATO, given his public dissatisfaction with the alliance this week due to the alliance’s refusal to join in on the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.
“The hiring and educational standards have gone way down at the NYT. Bring back, ‘ALL THE NEWS THAT’S FIT TO PRINT’ and, Make America Great Again!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The article, titled “Every Trump Threat to Abandon NATO Hollows It Out” online, was given the headline “A North American Treaty Organization Without America?” in the print version. The New York Times issued a correction when print readers noticed the error.
“A correction will appear in tomorrow’s print edition: ‘A headline with an article on Friday about President Trump’s threats to leave NATO misstated the full name of the body. It is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, not the North American Treaty Organization,’” the outlet said in a statement.
“Reporters don’t write print headlines but it was quickly corrected, btw,” the author of the piece, the outlet’s chief diplomatic correspondent Steven Erlanger, wrote on X.
The misprint, which was a play on words essential to the meaning of the headline, generated significant interest on social media as journalists debated the implications of the mistake in a media landscape that is increasingly turning its focus to online versions of stories over the print medium.
“There are tired copy editors who work really really hard and make one innocent and mortifying mistake that becomes grist for the social media gumball machine,” Glenn Thrush, a reporter for The New York Times, wrote on X.
David Harsanyi, senior writer at the Washington Examiner, argued that the headline was more than just one human error.
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“The problem here isn’t a slip up — that could happen to anyone. They literally played the cutesy headline off the mistake; and then a bunch of editors looked at before it went to print,” Harsanyi wrote on X.
The Washington Examiner has reached out to the New York Times for comment on Trump’s Truth Social post.
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