President Trump lashed out at a New York Times reporter Wednesday morning after she co-authored an unflattering story about his health, calling her “ugly, both inside and out” in his latest outburst toward a female journalist.

“[T]he Radical Left Lunatics in the soon to fold New York Times did a hit piece on me that I am perhaps losing my Energy, despite facts that show the exact opposite,” the 79-year-old raged over Tuesday’s story. “They know this is wrong, as is almost every thing that they write about me, including election results, ALL PURPOSELY NEGATIVE. This cheap ‘RAG’ is truly an ‘ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE.’”

Trump then rounded on Times White House correspondent Katie Rogers, who co-authored the story and who the president claimed “is assigned to write only bad things about me [and] is a third rate reporter who is ugly, both inside and out.”

President Trump called New York Times reporter Katie Rogers “ugly, both inside and out.” REUTERS

Trump claimed Rogers “is assigned to write only bad things about me [and] is a third rate reporter.” REUTERS

Wednesday’s blast follows Trump admonishing a female Bloomberg News reporter, “Quiet, piggy,” during a gaggle on board Air Force One Nov. 14 as she attempted to ask him a question about the Jeffrey Epstein case files.

The Times story concluded that Trump “has fewer public events on his schedule and is traveling domestically much less than he did by this point during his first year in office, in 2017, although he is taking more foreign trips.

“They know this is wrong, as is almost every thing that they write about me, including election results, ALL PURPOSELY NEGATIVE. This cheap ‘RAG’ is truly an ‘ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE,’” Trump wrote on Truth Social. @realDonaldTrump/TruthSocial

“He also keeps a shorter public schedule than he used to,” the story added. “Most of his public appearances fall between noon and 5 p.m., on average.”

Last month, Trump revealed that he underwent a MRI during an Oct. 10 “check-up” at Walter Reed Medical Center. Over the summer, the White House acknowledged that Trump had been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, which causes swelling in the ankles and legs.

Trump is the oldest man ever elected to the presidency and the second-oldest commander-in-chief in US history after former President Joe Biden. If the Republican serves out his full four-year term, he will take that record from Biden.

“He also keeps a shorter public schedule than he used to,” the New York Times story said. “Most of his public appearances fall between noon and 5 p.m., on average.” Getty Images

In a Nov. 19, 2021, Times article co-written by Rogers, concerns about Biden’s age were referenced in the context of Republican or conservative commentators’ attacks about the 46th president’s “fitness for office.”

Matthew Dallek, the only presidential historian quoted in the piece, told the outlet: “Biden appears to be much more straightforward than a lot of presidents and more transparent in the 10 months or so he’s been on the job, but because we don’t have access to all of the details, it’s very hard to rely completely on these reports.”

The article noted that the president hadn’t submitted to any cognitive exam during his annual physical.

The Times published other pieces during Biden’s presidency reflecting on the issue of his age and mental fitness, though with a more notable frequency as his re-election campaign neared.

Several of those articles made reference to his light schedule and efforts by his aides to choreograph his every public appearance — while often-anonymous staffers were quoted stating that the president remained mentally sharp in closed-door meetings.

AG Sulzberger, the publisher of the Gray Lady, said in a February 2024 interview with the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism that the Biden White House was “extremely upset” with his paper’s coverage.

“He is a historically unpopular incumbent and the oldest man to ever hold this office,” Sulzberger said. “We’ve reported on both of those realities extensively, and the White House has been extremely upset about it.”

Since winning back the White House, Trump has frequently criticized his former rival’ mental acuity and threatened to void some of his executive actions — even hanging a photo of the presidential auto-pen in Biden’s place under the West Wing colonnade.