Meet the Press today aired an interview host Kristen Welker taped Friday with President Donald J.
Meet the Press today aired an interview host Kristen Welker taped Friday with President Donald J. Trump. It showed Trump losing control and walking out of the interview when Welker challenged his insistence that the 2020 presidential election and the recent California election were rigged.
Weirdly, he kept referring to the U.S. as āyourā country when he was speaking to Welker, and to āyourā elections. It was almost as if he was a foreign observer offering criticism of the U.S.
As Welker repeatedly pointed out that he has never produced any evidence for his assertions, he got madder and madder, calling the mediaāNBC, ABC, CBS, CNNāone-sided and crooked. He insisted āthereās more evidence than ever presented.ā When she asked again if he had evidence, he said: āAll I have to do is look.ā When she continued to ask for evidence, he said: āYouāre either crooked or youāre stupid.ā
Finally, he got up, pulled off his mic, and left, telling her: āLetās call it quits because Iāve had enough. Thank you darling. Have a good time.ā
One of the things Trump spat at Welker was that ā[a] country can never be great with a dishonest press.ā With this statement directed at the legacy media, once again, Trump illustrated that he was accusing his opponents of what he, himself, is doing, a classic authoritarian technique to muddy the waters so people stop trying to figure out what is real and cease to believe anything.
In her interview, Welker challenged Trump over more than his election denial. He didnāt appear to like questions about the economy or his war on Iran, either.
Meeting with Trump in Wisconsin, at his teamās request, Welker asked Trump about the economy, noting that āGas is up. Diesel is up.ā Trump answered: āItās all coming down as soon as the warās over.ā Welker continued: āSeventy percent of farmers say they canāt afford fertilizer.ā Trump responded: āThe farmers are doing very well.ā He added: āAll of them support me because thereās nobody been better to farmers.ā He continued: āYou know I had a great first term. I had the greatest economy ever. And you know what? This oneās blowing it away.ā
As for Iran, Trump denied to Welker that he had ever promised to stay out of foreign wars, although Jane C. Timm of NBC News reminded readers that he told Pennsylvania voters in 2024: āI will not send you to fight and die in stupid foreign wars that never end. I will not send our sons and daughters to go fight for a war in a country that youāve never heard of. Weāre not going to do it. Weāre going to bring our troops home, and weāre going to focus on America First.ā