US President Donald Trump is preparing to announce an agreement between the two countries with British Prime Minister Kiel Starmer (not pictured) at the end of his state visit to Airesbury, UK on September 18, 2025.
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A federal judge in Tampa, Florida, dismissed President Donald Trump’s $15 billion defamatory lawsuit against the New York Times on Friday as “clearly inappropriate and inexplicable,” but Trump has allowed him to refill the much shorter and more brilliantly amended civil suit within the next month.
Judge Stephen Maryday criticized Trump’s long lawsuit — a time when Democrats are “mouthpieces” — for being too long to praise the president and “extra allegations.”
Trump later said, “I’m winning, I’m winning the case,” ABC News reporter Jonathan Carle pointed out at an oval office event where Mary Day unleashed his lawsuit.
Trump then attacked Carl and said, “You’re guilty, John, you’re guilty. ABC is a terrible network, a very unfair network, you should be ashamed of yourself. NBC is just as bad. I don’t know who’s wrong.”
Merry Day noted that Trump’s lawsuit, filed only on Monday, “consuming” 85 pages, and that the two citizen counts against Trump’s newspapers are detailed only in the last few pages, after many pages boasting many pages about Trump’s enemy and his bragging of his business and political achievements.
“As all lawyers know (or are presumed to know), complaints are not public forums for vituperations or violations, not protected platforms that will infuriate the enemy,” writes Maryday, who was appointed to the federal bench by former President George Hugh Bush.
“The complaint is not a megaphone for public relations, not a passionate narrative podium at a political gathering, or functional, equivalent to the corner of a Hyde Park speaker,” the judge said, referring to London’s famous free speech haven.
Maryday filed an amended lawsuit against Trump and his lawyer for 28 days against the Times, four reporters and a random home of Penguins.
However, he warned not to lengthen the 40 pages, “except captions, signatures and attachments only.”
“The measure will be launched and continued, and will be terminated in accordance with the rules of the proceedings and in a professional and dignified manner,” the judge wrote.
The Penguin was named in the complaint because Trump’s lawyer said he had publicly stated the falsehood.
The malicious book of honor and losses entitled “Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Wastes His Father’s Fortune and Creates the Illusion of Success” is by two-time reporters named in the Suit.
A spokesman for Trump’s legal team said in a statement to CNBC about the judge’s order: “President Trump will continue to be held responsible for fake news through the lawsuits of the New York Times, its reporters, Penguin Random House, following the judge’s direction on logistics.”
A Times spokesperson said: “We welcome the judge’s prompt ruling, and we recognized that this complaint was a political document, not a serious legal filing.”
