president Donald TrumpThe seemingly endless war with the media continues after the commander-in-chief abruptly ended an interview Meet the press.
“Let’s call it over because I’ve had enough,” said the 79-year-old Trump Meet the press Moderator Kristen Welker on Sunday, January 7, after the reporter asked the president about the so-called “arms fund,” which is intended to pay reparations to those imprisoned for their participation in the action January 6th Uprising at the US Capitol.
The president also apparently had questions about his continually debunked claims about the 2020 election, which he lost to the former president Joe Bidenwas “manipulated”.
“Thanks, darling, have a good time,” Trump told Welker as he reportedly “crushed his lapel microphone with his feet on the way out.” per CNBC.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, had some pithy words for President Donald Trump following his recent appearance on 60 Minutes. “My family and I watched the 60 Minutes interview with Donald Trump and Norah O’Donnell last night and were shocked,” Siebel Newsom, 51, shared on X on Monday, April 27.
Before his departure, the president claimed that the current race for mayor of Los Angeles was also being “rigged.” (Voters are waiting to see whether the Democrat Nithya Raman or a Republican reality TV star turned politician Spencer Pratt takes over the incumbent mayor Karen Bass in November.)
“The election was rigged, it was a dirty election and it’s happening again in California,” the president claimed, although he never provided any evidence to support the claim that the 2020 election, or any subsequent election, was “rigged.”
“They’re cheating the election,” he continued, claiming that “all I have to do is look” and “listen to people” to prove his claims, adding, “Let’s see what happens.”
He added: “Do you think it’s appropriate that they have an election and five days later are still nowhere near picking a winner? They are corrupt, just like you are corrupt, your press is corrupt and Meet the Press is corrupt.”
Of course, this is far from the first time the President of the United States has attacked members of the press – particularly female reporters. During a news conference in the Oval Office on Wednesday, June 3, the president criticized CNN’s chief White House correspondent Kaitlan Collinscalled the news organization a “very corrupt organization” before personally attacking the reporter.
“She’s a young, beautiful woman. She never smiles. I never see a smile on her face,” he told her colleagues and those in attendance. “I see her standing there with hatred in her eyes, like she has hatred because we had borders, because we had a strong military, because we cut our taxes, because we did things that everyone wanted, and then we win our election in a huge landslide.”
He continued, “And you should be ashamed of yourself. You used to be a conservative. She was a conservative from Alabama, can you believe that?”
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Before he ended his Sunday interview Meet the pressThe president also defended the controversial “weapons” fund of January 6th.
“If it were up to me, I would pay them the money they deserve,” Trump said of the pardoned insurrectionists, some of whom were convicted of physically attacking police officers in an attempt to overthrow the government. “People have been destroyed. Lives have been destroyed. Lots of suicides, remember.”
Like his claims of rigged elections, the president has offered no such evidence to support his claims that the insurrection was “peaceful” and that the lives of those found guilty of their roles were “ruined.” At least from December 2025 40 insurgents pardoned have since faced other, unrelated criminal charges, including child abuse and possession of child pornography.
