The president Donald TrumpA seemingly never-ending battle with the media continues after the police chief abruptly ended an interview. Meet the media.
“Let's call it an end, because enough is enough,” Trump, 79, said Meet the media the president Kristen Welker on Sunday, January 7, after a reporter asked the president about a fund called “weapons” intended to pay compensations to those arrested for their participation in the uprising on January 6 at the US Capitol.
The president also appeared to be facing questions about his persistent allegations that he lost the 2020 election to the former president. Joe Biden“built.”
“Thank you, honey, you had a great time,” Trump told Welker as he reportedly “crushed his lapel mic underfoot on his way out,” according to the report. CNBC.
Before he stormed out, the president said that the current race for mayor of Los Angeles is also “rigged.” (Voters are waiting to see if he's a Democrat Nithya Raman or a Republican reality TV star turned politician Spencer Pratt will take the position of Mayor Karen Bass November.)
“The election was rigged, it was a rigged election and it's happening again in California,” the president said, though he did not provide any evidence to support the allegations that the 2020 election or any subsequent elections were “rigged.”
“They cheated in the election,” he continued, saying “all I have to do is look” and “listen to the people” to prove what he said, adding “let's see what happens.”
He added, “Do you think they should have an election and then after five days they are no closer to choosing a winner?
Of course, this is far from the first time the president of the United States has attacked members of the media – especially female journalists. During an Oval Office press conference on Wednesday, June 3, the president criticized a CNN White House reporter. Kaitlan Collinscalling the news organization “a very corrupt organization” before attacking the journalist personally.
“She is a beautiful young woman. She never smiles. I have never seen a smile on her face,” he told his colleagues and those present. “I see him standing there with hatred in his eyes, as if he has hatred, because we have borders, because we have a strong army, because we are cutting our taxes, because we are doing things that everyone wanted, and then we won our elections with a big landslide.”
He continued, “And you should be ashamed of yourself. You used to be a conservative. He was a conservative in Alabama, can you believe it?”
Megyn Kelly and President Donald Trump have had their fair share of ups and downs over the years. Before Trump first ran for office, he and Kelly were friendly. However, things began to deteriorate after the two fell out following the 2015 Republican primary debate, where Trump criticized Kelly's handling of the matter. […]
Before finishing his interview on Sunday at Meet the mediathe president also defended the controversial January 6 “weapons” fund.
“If it were up to me, I would pay them the kind of money they deserve,” Trump said about the pardoned rebels, some of whom were found guilty of beating the police and trying to overthrow the government. “People have been destroyed. People's lives have been destroyed. Many are killing themselves, think about it.”
The president, as he claimed in the rigged election, provided no such evidence to back up his claims that the uprising was “peaceful” and that those found guilty of their role “had their lives ruined.” As of December 2025, at least 40 pardoned rebels have faced unrelated criminal charges, including child abuse and possession of child pornography.
