Trump Ends 'Crooked' Interview with NBC's 'Meet the Press'

President Donald Trump ended an interview with Kristen Welker on NBC's (Lean Left bias) "Meet the Press" on Friday, criticizing NBC and a handful of other left-leaning media outlets.

How The Media Covered It: NBC published a fact check on Saturday that exclusively highlighted Trump's contradictory claims – specifically on the Iran War, gas prices, the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol Riot, and California's midterm elections. It emphasized Trump's campaign promise to not start any new wars as president and rebutted Trump's statement that gas prices will go down when the war ends. The article also criticized Trump's "Anti-Weaponization Fund" and its suspected benefits for Capitol rioters, and it asserted, "There is no evidence of election fraud in California or problems with the state's ballot counting." Media outlets on the left were more staunchly critical of both Trump's comments and actions, with People (Lean Left) reporting, "Trump appeared to press his microphone under his shoe after removing it during his abrupt exit." Fox News (Right) emphasized Trump's criticisms of left-leaning media.

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The Details: Trump said California Democrats are "cheating" the state's midterm elections, after reaffirming his support for the "Anti-Weaponization Fund." Welker refuted that there is no supportive evidence of election fraud in California. "Do you think it's appropriate that they have an election, and five days later they're nowhere close to picking a winner?" Trump said. "They're crooked. Just like you're crooked and Meet the Press is crooked. You're either crooked or you're stupid." Trump pointed to the disproportionate amount of negative press that he received after winning the 2024 presidential election, declaring, "A country can never be great with a dishonest press." He called NBC, ABC (Lean Left), CBS (Lean Left) and CNN (Lean Left), in particular, "one-sided crooked networks."

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Post-Interview Comments: "I just did an interview in the most beautiful barn I've ever seen," Trump said after the interview last week. "But it was raining and it was with NBC fake news. And because it was raining, I got a little bit angry at them." Welker reported that she spoke with Trump on Saturday and they "both acknowledged the complications during the interview posed by the rain." She announced that Trump agreed to meet with her for another Meet the Press interview, though she did not specify a date.

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