From the lead, front-page news article in today's Times:
Despite his lament that he was handed "a mess" by President Barack Obama, Mr. Trump inherited a low unemployment rate, a lack of international crises requiring immediate attention and majorities in both houses of Congress.
"A lack of international crises requiring immediate attention"?
From a news article on page A3 of the same newspaper, same day, under the headline "U.S. Forces Play Crucial Role Against ISIS in Mosul":
HAMAM AL-ALIL, Iraq — One week after Iraqi forces began their push into western Mosul, American firepower is playing an essential role in softening the opposition from the Islamic State.
The thunderous booms from howitzers near Hamam al-Alil, a town along the Tigris River, are just part of the American military's contribution to keeping the Iraqi offensive moving forward...
At Qayyarah Airfield West, a sprawling Iraq base 40 miles south of Mosul, a United States Army task force fires Himars satellite-guided rockets at targets. Apache attack helicopters, equipped with Hellfire missiles, stand ready to carry out their missions from the base's airfield.
Not to mention the punishing airstrikes by American and allied warplanes and drones. A flurry of attacks were carried out by the American-led coalition in and around Mosul on Saturday, some involving the dropping of multiple bombs.
Maybe I'm missing something, but the American-Iraqi-French offensive against ISIS in Iraq sure sounds like a crisis that requires immediate attention. As do a variety of other events, including North Korean and Iranian missile launches ("North Korea Fires Ballistic Missile, Challenging Trump," was one recent Times headline.)
From an advertisement for the New York Times on Page A7 of the same newspaper, same day:
"The truth can't be manufactured...The truth is under attack...The truth is worth defending...The truth is more important now than ever."
Don't expect a Times correction of the inaccurate Times claim that Mr. Trump inherited from President Obama "a lack of international crises requiring immediate attention," because, notwithstanding all the Times self-congratulatory self-serving hype about the "truth," this one is the sort of sweeping overstatement verging on falsehood that the newspaper passes off to its readers all the time. The best way to correct against it, in my view, is to read the rest of the paper with care, but that isn't really much of an excuse.