Donald Trump “demands” an apology from Forbes magazine as it is the second time in three years that he has been removed from the list of the 400 richest people in the United States, reports the Guardian.
“I hereby demand a full apology from the failing Forbes magazine,” the former president wrote Wednesday (Oct. 11) on Truth Social, the social platform he created after being kicked off mainstream networks for the 6 attack January against the Capitol.
Forbes released its list of the richest people last week, but did not mention Trump, saying his net worth was down $600 million from the previous year. The introduction to the article is quite clear on this subject: “One name you won’t see (in the list, Editor’s note): Donald Trump. The ex-president’s fortune fell 19% to $2.6 billion.” The president has been on the list since the 1990s, but has not appeared since 2021.
In response, Trump complained about the “really stupid reporters assigned to beat me hard” and bragged about his significant lead in Republican presidential polls despite 91 criminal charges and various civil threats.
In his post, he can’t resist jabbing the editor-in-chief by complaining about “the writer, Dan Alexander, for the many false and defamatory articles [Forbes] has written about me.” “So much for Forbes! » he concludes. Alexander responded to the president in a tweet: “Hey Donald Trump, if you want to point out a single false fact in one of the articles I published about you – or in the book I wrote about you – n ‘dont hesitate. In the meantime, I will continue to report – and carefully fact-check every word I publish. »
Trump claims Forbes “cooperated” with Letitia James, the Democratic attorney general of New York state who sued Trump, his sons and his company.