Donald Trump cut short a pre-taped interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” that aired this Sunday, June 7, ending it mid-conversation after host Kristen Welker repeatedly asked him about his claims that the 2020 election had been rigged.
After a 40-minute interview with Walker, the president unclipped his lapel microphone and left the set, telling Welker, “You’re a one-sided, crooked network. Sorry. Let’s call it quits because I’ve had enough. Thank you, darling. Have a good time.”
The blowup occurred after Welker noted that no evidence supports the fraud allegations. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Trump insisted the case was airtight, saying, “There’s nothing but evidence. The election was rigged.” When Welker pressed him for specifics, he only said: “All I have to do is look.”
😳 President Donald Trump had a fiery on-air showdown during an interview on "Meet the Press" — with things escalating to the point where he abruptly left after repeated pushback from host Kristen Welker.
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Trump then brought up California’s still-uncounted primary from the previous Tuesday, telling Welker it was happening again.
The interview was recorded on Friday on a Wisconsin farm. Trump had been speaking to agricultural workers, with a tractor and hay bales framing the set and heavy rain repeatedly interrupting the taping.
When Trump got angry and stood up, Welker encouraged him to continue, saying she had traveled to the state for the sit-down. The POTUS replied that he had already given her enough time and had sat through the downpour. He also crushed the microphone underfoot before leaving the frame.
Questioning his foreign policy had already soured Trump’s mood
During the interview, Welker reminded Trump of his 2024 pledge to start “no new wars,” referencing Operation Epic Fury against Iran. Trump responded: “First of all, I didn’t guarantee no war. Why would I have built the strongest military in the world?”
Trump actually spent his 2024 run pledging no new wars and painting his opponents as warmongers. Per International Business Times, he told a Pennsylvania crowd he wouldn’t send Americans “to fight and die in stupid foreign wars that never end,” and his January 2021 farewell address called him “the first president in decades who has started no new wars.”
The president also defended a now-abandoned $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund,” which was tied to a settlement of his lawsuit against the IRS.
The abrupt exit capped an interview that ranged across the election, the Iran war, and the shelved fund, but the election-fraud exchange in particular seemed to have set the president off, causing him to end the interview, and after exchanging a few more words with Welker, walked off the stage.
