Can the word tabloid be used in this way?

[NewHopeR]

as to call USAToday a tabloid?

 

[Raymott]

as to call USAToday a tabloid?

USA Today is a broadsheet, not a tabloid. These words refer primarily to the size/layout.

Fig 1. Tabloids https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabloid_(newspaper_format)
Fig 2. USA Today - a broadsheet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Today

I don't know if you can call a broadsheet which engages in tabloid journalism a tabloid. I wouldn't.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabloid_journalism

 

[SoothingDave]

"Tabloid" has a pejorative sense mostly. USA Today is neither a tabloid in size or in journalistic philosophy.