President Trump has always taken issue with the truth, and on Tuesday (June 24), he took aim at networks CNN and MSNBC after their reports that the president’s attacks on Iran’s nuclear targets over the weekend weren’t as effective as claimed.
“I see CNN all night long, they’re trying to say, ‘Well, maybe it wasn’t really as demolished as we thought,’” Trump told reporters before boarding a plane to join the NATO summit in the Netherlands, the New York Post reports.
“I think CNN ought to apologize to the pilots of the B-2s, I think MSNBC ought to apologize. Cable networks are real losers, you’re gutless losers,” he added, before moving to board Air Force One.
But he wasn’t done.
“And the people that run it, nobody even knows, it’s been sold so many times,” he said. “But the people that run it ought to be ashamed. MSNBC – a guy named Brian Roberts – he heads it. He’s a disgrace. He’s a weak, pathetic disgrace.”
This was a familiar page out of the Trump playbook, who has never been a fan of news stations that don’t praise his time in office. The New York Post notes that neither MSNBC nor CNN has responded to the president’s remarks.
Trump also had heated words for both Israel and Iran who broke the recently negotiated ceasefire agreement between the two warring nations.
“[I] don’t know what the f–k they’re doing.”
A White House source told CNN that the president spoke with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and was “exceptionally firm and direct” about maintaining the ceasefire.
The president reportedly expressed “his great appreciation for Israel,” and Netanyahu committed to not ignore the ceasefire like he had before.
The Post notes that a former UN nuclear weapons inspector said he believes Iran’s nuclear centrifuge program was destroyed in the attacks.
“It’s amazing how much damage has been done to that program. I think that part of the mission has been accomplished,” David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, told CNN.