President Trump has at all times taken challenge with the reality, and on Tuesday (June 24), he took goal at networks CNN and MSNBC after their studies that the president’s assaults on Iran’s nuclear targets over the weekend weren’t as efficient as claimed.
“I see CNN all evening lengthy, they’re attempting to say, ‘Nicely, possibly it wasn’t actually as demolished as we thought,’” Trump instructed reporters earlier than boarding a airplane to affix the NATO summit within the Netherlands, the New York Submit studies.
“I feel CNN must apologize to the pilots of the B-2s, I feel MSNBC must apologize. Cable networks are actual losers, you’re gutless losers,” he added, earlier than transferring to board Air Drive One.
However he wasn’t finished.
“And the those who run it, no one even is aware of, it’s been offered so many occasions,” he stated. “However the those who run it must be ashamed. MSNBC – a man named Brian Roberts – he heads it. He’s a shame. He’s a weak, pathetic shame.”
This was a well-known web page out of the Trump playbook, who has by no means been a fan of stories stations that don’t reward his time in workplace. The New York Submit notes that neither MSNBC nor CNN has responded to the president’s remarks.
Trump additionally had heated phrases for each Israel and Iran who broke the lately negotiated ceasefire settlement between the 2 warring nations.
“[I] don’t know what the f–okay they’re doing.”
A White Home supply instructed CNN that the president spoke with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and was “exceptionally agency and direct” about sustaining the ceasefire.
The president reportedly expressed “his nice appreciation for Israel,” and Netanyahu dedicated to not ignore the ceasefire like he had earlier than.
The Submit notes {that a} former UN nuclear weapons inspector stated he believes Iran’s nuclear centrifuge program was destroyed within the assaults.
“It’s superb how a lot harm has been finished to that program. I feel that a part of the mission has been achieved,” David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and Worldwide Safety, instructed CNN.