Donald Trump abruptly left an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker, visibly upset.
The tension arose when Welker questioned Trump about his allegations of fraud in the 2020 election, leading to his sudden departure.
As Welker sought evidence to support his claim that the election was “stolen,” Trump became visibly agitated and lashed out.
In a heated exchange, Trump accused Welker of dishonesty directly during the interview.
“Your elections are like those in a third world country. They’re rigged, you’re dishonest, and so is ‘Meet the Press,’ along with ABC, CBS, and CNN,” Trump retorted.
Despite Welker’s attempts to continue the conversation, Trump interrupted, accusing the networks of bias and declared, “Let’s call it quits,” during the interview aired on Sunday.
‘I’ve had enough, thank you darling, have a good time,’ the fuming president said as he began to stand, ready to storm out.
Dishonest press. Let’s go
A frantic Welker begged him to stay, saying she had traveled to Wisconsin for the exclusive sit-down.
‘Mr President please, I traveled all the way to Wisconsin,’ Welker pleaded.
President Trump pushed back: ‘I’ve sat in the rain with you for an hour! On and off in the rain. I’ve given you enough time.’
‘You ought to straighten out your press. You know what? A country can never be great with a dishonest press. Let’s go,’ he said.
Trump stood and started to walk off, while Welker continued to ask him to stay.
The exchange boiled over when Welker pressed Trump on a $1.8 billion fund for people claiming they were targeted by the Biden administration’s alleged government ‘weaponization.’
The moderator asked the president if he planned to scrap the fund after acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the administration would not pursue it.
‘Just to be very clear, are you backing off the fund completely as your acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, has said, or are you looking for another avenue to revive the fund?’ Welker pressed.
Trump stood his ground, defending the billion-dollar proposal and claiming people were harmed by officials in the previous administration.
They’re vicious. They’re violent
‘People have been hurt so badly by radical left lunatics that worked for the Biden administration and Sleepy Joe,’ the president said.
‘They’re vicious. They’re violent, what they did to people. And, of course, they went after me more than anybody else,’ he added.
The commander-in-chief added that he backed reviving the proposed fund but noted it would require approval.
Trump later rampaged on about the press and the Biden administration, accusing them of ruining Americans’ lives.
‘I love the idea, because people like you, the fake dirty press, the crooked press, people like stupid Biden, he’s not smart enough to know what’s going on, but people that surrounded him, surrounded his beautiful Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, what they did to the lives of people, they destroyed people,’ Trump slammed.
Welker responded: ‘Just to be very clear, there’s no evidence of what you’re saying.’
‘There’s a lot of evidence, listen to me. There’s tremendous evidence. There’s nothing but evidence,’ Trump fired back.
The president pivoted to the 2020 election, calling it ‘rigged’ and linking it to California’s current state elections, before storming out.
Take it out and destroy it
Prior to the walkout, Trump discussed with Welker that he is not ruling out sending American troops on the ground in Iran to retrieve and destroy its highly enriched uranium.
As the conflict in Iran has persisted for over three months, Trump said that he thinks an end is near, as long as a ceasefire holds.
Part of a deal between the United States and Iran may involve sending US forces to retrieve what Trump called ‘nuclear dust’, in a conversation with the Meet the Press moderator.
‘But the way you do it is if we make a deal, if we make a deal now we’re friendly, we’ll all go together. It’ll be our equipment.
‘We’ll take it out and destroy it, whether it’s onsite or whether we take it offsite,’ he continued.
Still, the President insisted that US troops would not be in harm’s way, even if they are sent to Iran, insisting that he will diminish Iran’s military strength enough for American personnel to safely retrieve the material themselves.
‘We will go with them, or without them. But we won’t have people shooting at us, okay?’ Trump stated, ‘Now, if we don’t make a deal, then we’re going to take them out militarily very harshly.
‘And we’ll wait till we do that before we go, in which case we’ll have safety either way.’
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