--- title: Donald Trump: New Hampshire Newspaper 'A Pile of Garbage' description: "I've been friends with Christie but McQuaid, he is Christie's lap dog" canonical: https://time.com/4162918/trump-new-hampshire-newspaper/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-29T06:31:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:56:41.294Z article:section: Politics og:title: Trump Says New Hampshire Newspaper 'A Pile of Garbage' og:description: A front-page editorial called Trump an insult to the intelligence of voters og:url: https://time.com/4162918/trump-new-hampshire-newspaper/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf61f79008138b64d/69887702196cf4a6ff039a37/gettyimages-502745714.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump Campaign Rally og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trump Says New Hampshire Newspaper 'A Pile of Garbage' twitter:description: A front-page editorial called Trump an insult to the intelligence of voters twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf61f79008138b64d/69887702196cf4a6ff039a37/gettyimages-502745714.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Trump Says New Hampshire Newspaper Is a 'Pile of Garbage' ## Video: Watch The Best Quotes By Donald Trump [Watch (HLS stream): Watch The Best Quotes By Donald Trump](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/7MzTpVq2.m3u8) (1:21)  _Published 2015-07-23. Donald Trump's Most Ridiculous Quotes_ by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Dec 29, 2015 6:31 AM UTC  Donald Trump, 2016 Republican presidential candidate, pauses during a speech at a campaign rally at Pennichuck Middle School in Nashua, New Hampshire, on Dec. 28, 2015. Donald Trump, 2016 Republican presidential candidate, pauses during a speech at a campaign rally at Pennichuck Middle School in Nashua, New Hampshire, on Dec. 28, 2015.Andrew Harrer—Bloomberg&/Getty Images by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Dec 29, 2015 6:31 AM UTC NASHUA, N.H. – Donald Trump referred to the biggest newspaper in New Hampshire as a “pile of garbage” Monday night after the New Hampshire Union-Leader ran a front-page calling him an insult to the intelligence of voters in the state. Speaking to a crowd of more than a thousand, Trump railed against the paper’s publisher, Joseph McQuaid, who wrote the editorial. Trump repeated earlier claims that McQuaid asked him to write a tweet in favor of Chris Christie’s inclusion in a prime-time GOP debate. “Maybe it has more power than I think, but honestly I watch this guy… he’s a loser,” Trump said… [_Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News_](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/trump-says-new-hampshire-newspaper-pile-garbage-n487081?cid=par-time%5F20151229) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4162918/trump-new-hampshire-newspaper/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4162918/trump-new-hampshire-newspaper/"},"headline":"Trump Says New Hampshire Newspaper Is a 'Pile of Garbage'","datePublished":"2015-12-29T06:31:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:56:41.294Z","description":"\"I've been friends with Christie but McQuaid, he is Christie's lap dog\"","url":"https://time.com/4162918/trump-new-hampshire-newspaper/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf61f79008138b64d/69887702196cf4a6ff039a37/gettyimages-502745714.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf61f79008138b64d/69887702196cf4a6ff039a37/gettyimages-502745714.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump Campaign Rally","caption":"Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump Campaign Rally","creditText":"Andrew Harrer—Bloomberg&/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4162918/trump-new-hampshire-newspaper/","name":"Trump Says New Hampshire Newspaper Is a 'Pile of Garbage'"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Watch The Best Quotes By Donald Trump","description":"Donald Trump's Most Ridiculous Quotes","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/7MzTpVq2/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-07-23T21:38:04.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/7MzTpVq2.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4162918/trump-new-hampshire-newspaper/","duration":"PT1M21S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4162918/trump-new-hampshire-newspaper/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```