President Donald Trump and New York Times White House and National Security Correspondent David Sanger went head to head with the president calling Sanger “treasonous” and “fake.”
The presidential insults came aboard Air Force One after Trump’s trip to Beijing, China, Friday.
Sanger asked Trump about the Iran War to which Trump responded the reporting has been “fake.”
“What would the use be in repeating the bombing?” Sanger asked. “You did it for 38 days And you did not get the political changes in Iran–”
“I got, I had a total military victory. But the fake news, guys like you write incorrectly. You’re a fake guy, Ed (SIC)–,” Trunp started.
“And guys like you write about incorrectly. We had a total military victory. We knocked out their entire Navy. We knocked down their entire Air Force. We knocked all of their anti-aircraft weaponry. We knocked off all of the radar. We knocked of all of our leaders, number one,” Trump continued.
“And then we knocked out all of their leaders in the second division. And we knocked out numerous of their leaders in the 3rd Division, and they’re very confused,” Trump added. “We’ve had a total victory except… By people like you that don’t write the truth, you know, you should write.
“I actually think it’s sort of treasonous what you write, but you and The New York Times and CNN I would say are the worst,” the president claimed.
“On another war–,” the reporter interjected.
“And you should know better than that. You know better. You went to write. And you’re right. And you should be ashamed of yourself,” Trump responded.
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“Another war. Is there any…,” Sanger started to ask.
“I actually think it’s treason. When you write like they’re doing well militarily and they have no Navy, no Air Force, no anti-anything,” Trump said. “By the way, we knocked out 85% of their manufacturing for the missiles. We knocked out everything.”
“We haven’t knocked out other than one bridge and we did because they misbehaved. But we have bridges we can knock down. We can knock out their bridges and their electrical capacity. Within two days, we can knock out the whole thing,” Trump continued.
“And then I read The New York Times, and they act like they’re doing well. And everybody does it. That’s why your subscribers are way down. You know, The Times subscribers are way down because it’s fake news. Subscribers are way, way down, way there,” the president added.
The Times published a report on Iran regaining capabilities and the Trump administration overstating their own military success.
