By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2026-06-07 16:57:46 | Updated at 2026-06-07 19:29:40
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An infuriated Donald Trump stormed off mid-sentence during an interview with NBC's Kristen Welker.
Welker pressed the president on his claims that the 2020 election was rigged, prompting him to walk out of the interview.
He snapped at the moderator when she demanded proof for his contested assertion that the 2020 election had been ‘stolen.’
President Trump blasted Welker, calling her a liar to her face.
'The elections are like a third world country. Your elections are crooked, and you're crooked, and "Meet the Press" is crooked, and so is ABC, CBS and CNN.'
As Welker tried to intervene, the president said: 'You're one-sided crooked networks. Let's call it quits,' Trump lashed during the interview that aired Sunday.
'I've had enough, thank you darling, have a good time,' the fuming president said as he began to stand, ready to storm out.
A frantic Welker begged him to stay, saying she had traveled to Wisconsin for the exclusive sit-down.
'Mr President please, I traveled all the way to Wisconsin,' Welker pleaded.
President Donald Trump walked out during an interview with NBC's Meet the Press
The commander-in-chief then stood up and began to walk off, as Welker begged again for the president to stay
President Trump pushed back: 'I've sat in the rain with you for an hour! On and off in the rain. I've given you enough time.
'You ought to straighten out your press. You know what? A country can never be great with a dishonest press. Let's go,' he said.
Trump then rose and started to walk away, while Welker pleaded for him to stay and finish the interview.
The exchange boiled over at the end when Welker pressed Trump on a $1.8 billion fund for people claiming they were targeted by the Biden administration's alleged government 'weaponization.'
The moderator asked the president if he planned to scrap the fund after acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the administration would not pursue it.
'Just to be very clear, are you backing off the fund completely as your acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, has said, or are you looking for another avenue to revive the fund?' Welker pressed.
Trump stood his ground, defending the billion-dollar proposal and claiming people were harmed by officials in the previous administration.
The exchange boiled over at the end when Welker pressed Trump on a $1.8 billion fund for people claiming they were targeted by the Biden administration's alleged government 'weaponization'
The moderator asked the president if he planned to scrap the fund after acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the administration would not pursue it
'People have been hurt so badly by radical left lunatics that worked for the Biden administration and Sleepy Joe,' the president said.
'They’re vicious. They’re violent, what they did to people. And, of course, they went after me more than anybody else,' he added.
The commander-in-chief added that he backed reviving the proposed fund but noted it would require approval.
Prior to the walkout, Trump discussed with Welker that he is not ruling out sending American troops on the ground in Iran to retrieve and destroy its highly enriched uranium.
As the conflict in Iran has persisted for over three months, Trump said that he thinks an end is near, as long as a ceasefire holds.
Part of a deal between the United States and Iran may involve sending US forces to retrieve what Trump called 'nuclear dust', in a conversation with the Meet the Press moderator.
'But the way you do it is if we make a deal, if we make a deal now we're friendly, we'll all go together. It'll be our equipment.
'We'll take it out and destroy it, whether it's onsite or whether we take it offsite,' he continued.
President Trump blasted the reporter, calling her a liar to her face
Trump walked off after calling the moderator 'crooked'
Still, the President insisted that US troops would not be in harm's way, even if they are sent to Iran, insisting that he will diminish Iran's military strength enough for American personnel to safely retrieve the material themselves.
'We will go with them, or without them. But we won't have people shooting at us, okay?' Trump stated, 'Now, if we don't make a deal, then we're going to take them out militarily very harshly.
'And we'll wait till we do that before we go, in which case we'll have safety either way.'
This is a breaking news story.
