Trump Goes After Press & DemocratsUS President Donald Trump on Monday intensified his long-running feud with major American media outlets and Democratic lawmakers, using a dramatic Truth Social post tied to theIran conflictto accuse the press of systematic anti-Trump bias. In the post, Trump claimed that even if Iran were to completely surrender militarily to the United States, media organisations including The New York Times, CNN and The Wall Street Journal would still portray Tehran as victorious.
“If Iran surrenders, admits their Navy is gone and resting at the bottom of the sea, and their Air Force is no longer with us,” Trump wrote, “The Failing New York Times, The China Street Journal (WSJ!), Corrupt and now Irrelevant CNN, and all other members of the Fake News Media, will headline that Iran had a Masterful and Brilliant Victory over the United States of America.”
Trump also attacked Democrats, referring to them as “Dumacrats” and accusing both the media and political opposition of having “totally lost their way”. The post quickly reignited debate over Trump’s increasingly aggressive rhetoric toward mainstream media organisations during a period of heightened geopolitical tensions involving Iran and the wider Middle East.
The outburst came only hours after Trump quietly moved to withdraw a controversial $10 billion lawsuit filed earlier this year against theInternal Revenue Service(IRS). Court filings made public Monday morning showed that Trump, members of his family business and two of his adult sons voluntarily dismissed the civil suit against the federal tax agency. The filing itself did not disclose whether any settlement agreement had been reached with the administration.
The underlying case stemmed from one of the most politically explosive tax controversies of Trump’s presidency. During Trump’s first term, former IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn unlawfully accessed and leaked Trump’s tax return information to media organisations including The New York Times and ProPublica. Littlejohn was later identified, prosecuted and sentenced to prison.
Despite the criminal conviction, Trump launched the massive civil suit earlier this year seeking damages from the IRS itself, creating the unusual situation of a sitting president pursuing a multibillion-dollar claim against an executive branch agency operating under his own administration.
The lawsuit later generated additional controversy after reports emerged suggesting Trump’s team was exploring the creation of a proposed $1.7 billion compensation fund linked to individuals allegedly harmed by what Trump described as political “weaponization” during the Biden administration. Critics quickly attacked the idea.
Congressional Democrats and legal analysts argued that such a fund — reportedly envisioned with limited oversight — could function as a politically controlled financial mechanism benefiting Trump allies and aligned causes.
Ninety-three Democratic lawmakers subsequently filed a legal brief opposing any settlement arrangement they believed could undermine constitutional and institutional safeguards. House Democrats accused Trump of engaging in “corruption unparalleled”, while legal critics described the proposed structure as resembling a political “slush fund”. Trump’s legal team, however, defended the original lawsuit aggressively.
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