Trump Comments On Show Following Appearance
Oh, Sunday night brought the fireworks early—and they came straight from the digital fingertips of former President Donald J. Trump, who let loose on NBC News and “Meet the Press” anchor Kristen Welker in a now-viral Truth Social post that, in classic Trump fashion, pulled zero punches and left no network stone unturned.
Trump, who spoke with Welker by phone earlier that day, took sharp aim at the Sunday morning mainstay, accusing the anchor—and by extension, her network—of wasting time and focusing on what he sees as political theater instead of actual substance. And let’s be real: the man didn’t bury the lede.
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“Kristen Welker’s entire first half hour of the Lowly Rated Meet the Fake Press this morning, was devoted to the boring Signal Witch Hunt,” Trump wrote, branding the program with one of his signature nicknames and taking issue with its coverage of an internal Signal chat group that had featured some of his former top officials.
That group, in recent days, has drawn headlines after being exposed as the forum for a pointed exchange on military strategy involving the Houthi rebels—and yes, it accidentally looped in none other than Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg. Oops.
But for Trump, the real outrage wasn’t the slip—it was the spotlight. He argued that Welker chose to magnify minutiae rather than asking about the “real wins,” as he called them: progress against the Houthis, peace negotiations involving Russia and Ukraine, and escalating tensions with Iran. “She wastes my Administration’s time by talking to them about ‘NOTHING,’” he wrote, in a post that doubled as both media critique and campaign war cry.
And then—because no Trump takedown is complete without turning the heat up a notch—he zeroed in on NBC’s top brass, directing blame at Comcast CEO Brian Roberts. “A pathetic Loser,” Trump declared, adding that Roberts is “petrified of the Left” and incapable of hiring “honest and credible” journalists.
Now, love him or loathe him, you can’t deny that Trump knows how to redirect a news cycle. At a time when he’s stacking up high poll numbers and eyeing the road to November with growing confidence, the former president isn’t letting up on the media elite.
And when he says NBC and MSNBC have spent “almost all of their waking hours making up Fake Stories”—well, whether you see that as fact or fury, it’s exactly the kind of media-bashing, base-rallying move that defined his first run and is roaring back in round two.