NYT publisher calls out news outlets for 'capitulation' to Trump administration

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Politico

05/22/2026 03:09 PM EDT


New York Times publisher AG Sulzberger slammed President Donald Trump’s incursions on press freedom and chastised the news outlets he accused of caving to White House pressure in a speech Thursday night. The Times has been embroiled in several major lawsuits against Trump and the federal government, both as a defendant and plaintiff, since the president returned to the White House last year.

“It serves no one to sidestep the reality that President Trump has used an increasingly broad suite of tools and powers to go after the press far more aggressively than his modern predecessors,” Sulzberger said at a Yale Law School event in New York City, according to a transcript of his remarks posted by the Times. He listed off the Pentagon’s loyalty policy for the press, which a federal judge ruled unconstitutional in March; Trump’s lawsuits against the Des Moines Register, The Wall Street Journal and the BBC; and CBS’s altered programming, personnel and policies under its new owner, David Ellison.

Sulzberger reprehended publications he said have settled “winnable cases” with the president, refocused their editorial pages away from White House criticism and adopted Trump’s favored language in their reporting, such as swapping out the Gulf of Mexico for the Gulf of America — all to “appease the administration or advance their business interests.”

“Such capitulation, even seemingly small instances of it, serves only to embolden the administration to keep attacking the press,” he said. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/22/nyt-first-amendment-press-freedom-00934208

[mcar]

1. Does this mean NYT will stop interviewing

Trump voters in Ohio diners?

[erronis]

5. They are going to have to switch to OK or TX. Ohioans are starting to see the light.

[Beartracks]

14. Right? In OK, Republican candidates keep trying to ...

... paint even their Republican rivals as Biden-loving, Trump--hating, woke DEI liberals in bed with coastal elites.. The ads are ridiculous, strident, box-checking bullshit done in that faux-dramatic black-and-white voiceover. They reeeeealy love their Trump messiah in Oklahoma.

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[RockRaven]

2. I would say "someone get this motherfucker a mirror" except the

term "capitulation" would really be misapplied to the actions of someone like him... someone for whom collaborator, co-conspirator, enabler, cheerleader, and profiteer would be more accurate descriptors.

[agingdem]

3. so is this the same NYT that thought a irresponsible idiot tv clown was

a better bet for the top job than Hillary Clinton, a brilliant highly credentialed woman?..and is this the same NYT that parses Trump's vile racist revenge vomit into "acceptable political dialogue"?..and is this same NYT that had a running tab of Biden's trips and slips?...STFU Artie, you entitled asshole!!

[BumRushDaShow]

4. You forgot one other biggy

[erronis]

6. Haberman being the conduit that the trump world communicated through the "elites"

[agingdem]

7. Maggie Haberman..Trump's "horse whisperer"..

I remember Maggie trying to justify Trump’s sadistic disregard for human life because his father was
conniving malicious racist cretin and his mother was cold and depressive in one of her screeds..

[erronis]

8. They were just making use of their editorial "noblesse oblige".

Being a publisher does have some perks, amiright?

[ClickClack]

9. NYT - Breaking News: Pot Calls Kettle Black (eom)

[niyad]

10. I was sure this was The Onion!!!

[Bev54]

11. Oh the irony is deep!

[xuplate]

12. Says the guy that has been publishing pro-Trump editorials.

[AllyCat]

13. The paper that gave the Nazi in power their full support?

That NYT?