President Donald Trump did not hold back on his take of the “very unfair media.”
The president unleashed a tirade on social media Wednesday, criticizing how the media has covered his Friday meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
He said the media consists of “sick and dishonest people, who probably hate our Country,” Mediaite reported.
“Very unfair media is at work on my meeting with Putin. Constantly quoting fired losers and really dumb people like John Bolton, who just said that, even though the meeting is on American soil, ‘Putin has already won.’ What’s that all about? We are winning on EVERYTHING,” Trump wrote.
“The Fake News is working overtime (No tax on overtime!). If I got Moscow and Leningrad free, as part of the deal with Russia, the Fake News would say that I made a bad deal! But now they’ve been caught,” he continued.
“Look at all of the real news that’s coming out about their CORRUPTION,” he added. “They are sick and dishonest people, who probably hate our Country. But it doesn’t matter because we are winning on everything!!! MAGA.”
Bolton served as Trump’s national security adviser during his first time as president. He has not been a critic of his former boss.
Most recently, he said the upcoming meeting between Trump and Putin was a mistake.
“Putin has already won. He is the leader of a rogue state, and he’ll get a picture on U.S. soil with the president of the United States,” Bolton said in an interview with The Atlantic‘s Jonathan Lemire. “Trump wants a deal. And if he can’t get one now, he may walk away from it entirely.”
“Putin kept pushing Trump and eventually went further than Trump was willing to be pushed. He got mad, so Putin gave him this summit. Now he wants to work his KGB magic on Trump and get him back in line,” Bolton added.
Trump has reversed the script in his relationships with Russia and Ukraine.
In the beginning of his second term, he was friendly towards Putin and hostile towards Ukraine. Now, he has become more sympathetic towards Ukraine and critical of Russia.
“I’ve been disappointed. Because I’d have, like, a great call with him [Putin], and then missiles would be lobbed into Kiev or some other place,” Trump said at a press conference Monday. “And you’d have 60 people laying on a road dying. I said, ‘That’s cold. That’s cold!’”
