‘You Should Be Embarrassed’: Trump Snaps At Reporter Confronting Him On Accepting Gift From Qatar

President Donald Trump snapped at an ABC News reporter Monday as she confronted him on accepting a luxury gift from the royal family of Qatar to the U.S. government.

The president is set to accept a Boeing 747-8 jet, which he will use as Air Force One, and later be transferred to his presidential library at the end of his second term, ABC News first reported. The reporter asked why Trump decided not to leave the jet behind given that he is receiving backlash for accepting the gift.

“What do you say to people who say that you got a luxury jet as a personal gift to you? Why not leave it behind?” the reporter asked.

“You’re ABC fake news, right? Only ABC, well, a few of you would. Let me tell you, you should be embarrassed asking that question. They’re giving us a free jet. I could say no, no, no. Don’t give us , I want to pay you $1 billion or $400 million or whatever it is. Or I could say thank you very much … When they give you a putt, you pick it up, you walk to the next hole and you say ‘thank you very much.’”

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The president clarified that the jet is a gift to the Department of Defense, and not him personally.

“It’s a gift to the Department of Defense, and you should know better because you’ve been embarrassed enough and so has your network,” Trump continued. “Your network is a disaster. ABC is a disaster.”

Trump criticized Democrats in a Sunday Truth Social post for wanting the U.S. government to pay for the jet, calling the gift a “very public and transparent transaction.”