Trump Recommends NY Post Editor Take Over WSJ in Scathing Attack: ‘It’s an Easy Move for Rupert’
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President Donald Trump ramped up his attacks on the Wall Street Journal on Friday, even going so far as to recommend a new editor-in-chief for the Rupert Murdoch-owned paper.
“I highly recommend Keith Poole, who is the very successful Editor-in-Chief of the New York Post, to take over the entire operation of the highly inaccurate, ‘China Centric,’ Wall Street Journal. It’s an easy move for Rupert, and he’ll love the results. Such a change would be a GREAT DAY for America, but not a Great Day for China!” declared Trump on his Truth Social platform. While both papers are owned by Murdoch, the Post and the Journal are very different publications, with the Post being famous for its tabloid-style coverage and bombastic covers, and the Journal gearing more toward the business community with hard-hitting investigative journalism.
Trump has attacked The Wall Street Journal in recent months over its editorials warning of economic turmoil related to his sweeping global tariffs. Over the weekend, Trump asked a reporter on Air Force One what publication he was with, and after the reporter told him the Journal, Trump replied, “Boy, you people treat us so badly. Wall Street Journal has truly gone to hell…Rotten newspaper! You hear me, what I said?! It’s a rotten newspaper!”
In late April, the Journal ran an editorial marking Trump’s first 100 days in office and warning that Trump’s recent moves could “sink his presidency.”
“Mr. Trump was elected to control inflation and raise real incomes, but tariffs do the opposite. They guarantee at least a one-time increase in prices on imported goods that will flow through the economy. They portend shortages for consumers, and for businesses that source goods and components from abroad,” wrote the Journal’s editorial board.
“It’s a mistake to think the tariff damage is only domestic. The willy-nilly assault on friends and foes has shaken global confidence in U.S. reliability,” added the Journal, which is currently run by Emma Tucker – the former editor of the UK’s The Sunday Times.
Under Poole, the Post has long been a reliably pro-Trump publication, but has also made clear its opposition to Trump’s tariffs. In mid-April, the Post ran an editorial headlined, “Trump’s China tariffs are slamming small businesses — the heart of our economy and his own voters.” The Post’s editorial board argued in the piece that Trump’s tariffs would hurt his base economically and warned, “If the White House doesn’t wake up fast to the growing angst, the fallout — economic and political — will be rapid, deep and lasting.”
