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Trump walks out of Meet the Press interview with Kristen Welker

journalismJun 8, 20261526,266

President Donald Trump walked off NBC's Meet the Press during an interview with host Kristen Welker after she pressed him on his claims that the 2020 presidential election and California's recent governor race were "rigged." Welker asked for evidence supporting those allegations, and the taped interview ended abruptly without Trump producing documentation or answering follow-up questions. The exchange matters because it denied viewers a direct on-air response to the president's contested election claims and highlighted escalating tensions between Trump and national news anchors in an election year.

RiskyLiberal
@riskyliberal.bsky.social

"Meet The Press" host Accused of Blatant 'Journalism' After Confronting Trump On His Ridiculous Election Lies.

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LadyLeeds20

This was a brave interview from Kristen Welker. More like this please.

PoloPrincess MBA15

She was far more patient with him than I would’ve been. It’s infuriating that “reporters” allow him to lie, gaslight, and obfuscate. If they all walked out on the interview when he started screaming or name-calling, he would stop. He needs their attention more than they need him.

Jackie L9

How dare they do Blatant Journalism... on a program with a journalist...🙄 It's like doing Scientific Research by researchers, or Medical Science by professors.. Outrageous!!

The Wizard Of Awe6

She's awesome. He's a demented old a$$hole. Everyone can see it, whether they admit it or not.

michelleaustin2024.bsky.social6

he's getting worse, it's just ridiculous

iainjohn.bsky.social6

The world needs more Blatant Journalists

kenfitzgerald.bsky.social4

She did a brilliant job, should be proud of her confronting that bully. There should b more journalists doing the same, and we the public should be supporting them

Amy Oddo✌🏻💙☀️3

#TrumpDerangement in living color brought to you by @nbcnews.com

PJAIR3

Dictators don’t like to be called out for their actions or crimes or corruption. Just their made up accomplishments. WHAT A BUNCH OF 💩

Scavenging Joker3

Why go to Meet the Press of he cannot meet the press?

Felonious Musk3

First things I'd ask Trump> 1. Was Jeffrey Epstein your very best friend? 2. Are you a pedophile? 3. Is ICE a secret police force? 4. Does Israel and Putin have the dirt on you? ......and so on

Steven2

A journalist accused of doing journalism? The insanity! Aren't they just supposed to nod sagely in the face of rank stupidity and lies?! /s

chiefpad2

The heroes will be remembered

Cobaloxime2

No one will ever accuse Trump of being blatantly presidential.

Amblin2

Yes because actual valid Jounalism and a free press is not allowed now. Fourth Reich

Bill Madden
@maddenifico.bsky.social

This is what INSANITY looks like: Bullying buffoon Trump loses his fucking mind and walks out of a softball interview with Meet the Press host Kristen Welker. Because he's so insecure and psychologically fragile, the sick fuck thinks every election he loses must be "rigged."

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Steve in P.N.W.42

California election results are faster than the release of Epstein Files 🤷🏻‍♂️

Rita Lopes22

He went off the rails and he looks like shit which I’m happy about.

punwithwordz12

I long for the moment when a reporter ends the interview after Donnie’s insults and walks out on him.

Concerned Citizen10

It absolutely mystifies me how MAGA believes that every election they lose must be rigged, and every election they win is beyond perfect. Every flaw we point out is "stupid" or "lunatic fringe left-wing". There are no facts anymore - it's what they say or nothing. If a Dem did this, is that OK?

That Artist10

The bar has been set so fucking low for journalism in this country, that simply making the statement “you haven’t given evidence” creates this response from him. It’s fucking nuts. .

Lindsay9

such a vulgar, loathsome, vile, cowardly, pathetic weakling and this nation elected him twice

Spooky Morales8

And yet millions of Americans still support him 💩🇺🇸💩

artistlife2023.bsky.social7

My God. Get this lunatic out of our lives.

Shar DSantos6

Don the Chump....IS A RAVING LUNATIC‼️🤬

xsfleabaggage.bsky.social6

Thinks he can bully her into crying, walking out, when she doesn’t he can’t deal. Says a LOT about HIS life experiences. This is who he is.

savetheplanet65.bsky.social6

God I love her. Journalism ISNT DEAD YET!

Pat5

Mail-in ballots + big state = slow count. Not a conspiracy. Proof of voting, just like in Oregon and other states with mail/dropbox voting.

Eileen Popp.🇺🇦🌻🎹📻📽🎠🎭🐧🐇5

Bill,what a petulant man-baby he is.

Jim 🇨🇦4

The senile crackpot neighbour is now the president.

Sascha_Vykos24

He looks so fucking ridiculous. He tries to physically intimidate women but he just looks like a withered bullfrog in a bad wig. He must fucking hate that the most lol

Jon chase4

It’s the Cohen mantra, say it three times and it must be true. con man teaching a con man.

𝕸𝖔𝖑𝖑𝖆𝖌𝖚𝖘 𝕴𝖓𝖛𝖎𝖈𝖙𝖚𝖘 🌶4

The press barely pushes back.

Pat4

I wish she hadn't said that about "all the way to Wisconsin " like it's the end of the earth (although obviously moving the whole team is a pain in the neck and interferes with family obligations). What agreements had they made? Trump interrupts

Not even a fake boss, but a FAKE fake boss4

when things get difficult he walks away

Kellee on the Mountain🗻4

Run fukface run! Lol. All reporters need to confront him exactly like this.

itfdb.bsky.social4

He barely got up on his own. He looked like my mom after her knee replacement.

danesinc 🇨🇦🇺🇦3

He has always created his own reality. He is delusional.

mrhilltop227.bsky.social3

You can tell he's lying--he's doing that accordion thing with his hands.

Lioness3

Ffs California is huge. You can’t just check everything is accurate in a day. He just wants to screw up the governor race

Resist!3

Trump is scared of elections.

IMPEACH & REMOVE3

I suspect the reason he blew up and left, was because he couldn’t remember his talking points. She called him out on promising start no wars, and he started spiraling. He was flying blind and realized she had a firmer grasp of facts and things he had said than he did. The blow up was defensive.

Whirled Bizarre3

He “says” they’re rigged. It doesn’t mean he “thinks” they’re rigged.

GypsyHeart 🖤2

He’s a horrible POS. I will never forgive anyone that voted for this buffoon

Tight Pants & Cheap Motels = No Ballroom2

I know it's easy to criticize, because none of us really know how we would react to being screamed at by the President of the United States. Having said that, I wish she had just kept on asking over and over, "where is your evidence?"

billstir.bsky.social2

She missed her chance, she's pathetic

NonProductiveCitizen2

setting the stage for the midterms. We know he's never won an election in his life. And deep down, he knows it too. This sure is a slow death though, I'll give it that.

Brainfreeze4012

This scumbag is the biggest POS that ever existed.

Byron2

Trump can only win running against a woman. I bet that fucks his head up.

Terry W Sanders2

Psycho baby man throws an outright tantrum. This psycho, for the sake of the country and the world, has got to go–along with with all of his degenerate enablers

7r-ick.bsky.social2

How to talk to the bully Trump re: election fraud: Journalists should present the fact that 99% of Americans take responsibility for one vote per one eligible voter. Elections are something America gets right and the President should express pride instead of disdain for our electoral process.

Ever Rouge2

Don’t fucking touch her you POS!

richarddonquixote.bsky.social2

This is a CLASSIC symptom of #Dementia.

Nick Kave 🇬🇷 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦2

He cannot deal with his reality of failure. His first term was the worst in US history. He was fired. Term 2 proving to be worse than 1 and we aren’t even half way through 🥺 These are THE FACTS 👇🏻

Bluechous 🦕2

Almost every other candidate, R D or other, has accepted their defeats, before and after this idiot. He’s the ONLY candidate who “lost” in a “rigged” election. Whaa Whaa Whaa.

bloc mother2

I admit I experienced some schadenfreude watching him publicly decompensate. The clock is seriously ticking for this motherfucker.

Mark Jacob
@markjacob.bsky.social

Over the weekend, NBC’s Kristen Welker aggressively confronted Trump’s lies about election fraud. Good. But a more impactful step would be for the network to declare that it wants no further interviews with Trump because he lies so much.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)14

This might be his first MTP walk-off, but find me an interview when Trump hasn't attacked Welker. Still, the show re-books him time and time again. Even now she says she's asked Trump to come back for another interview...

Yozoo7

I thought she did a pretty weak job actually, this is how low the bar is now sadly.

davidrlurie7

Exactly. Trump preemptively "offered" another interview to Welker, after insulting her and virtually every other actual journalist. Why accept?

Paul Russell5

She should have walked out on him.

sissydonhadit.bsky.social4

Make that all respectable networks.

Joel Lesko4

Welker started with a sane washing statement "I want to start out talking about the major issue you are focused on every day, Iran". Everyone in the world knows that is not true. Trump said he's bored. It's good she confronted him on election lies, but yikes, so many lies got spewed w no pushback.

David3

They should sue Trump like he sues them. cbwrong.blogspot.com/2026/06/when...

LS-on-the-flipfone.bsky.social3

That's a good point but it might have more impact if there's more push back from interviewers inducing more tantrums like this. I'm dying to see the interaction "You're a crook!.... you're a convicted felon." >>>

Peter Louwe3

Maybe she wants to atone for her obsequious "reporting" that's been sane washing the rapist for the past decade.

Jolene From Canada 🇨🇦 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦2

When he became openly hostile and escalated, the network should have stepped in and ended that interview and had him removed. Following that, an immediate release of the questions with the fact check. And it should have played on a loop. The network should have had the control, not trump. IMHO

Kay Sunday2

When people show you who they are believe them. We need no additional confirmation that the president is a homemade liar.

Adam Parker2

Exactly. Why give a liar and a cheat a platform to lie and cheat?

NancyNY 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇩🇰2

Exactly right. Don’t give him the platform.

Patricia2

Not just that he lies, he is always abusive to women, when confronted for his lies. He never acts that way when confronted by any of the male journalists.

zitronenjette1.bsky.social2

There should have been a partition between her and Donald. If the cameras weren’t on, he definitely would have lunged across at her. Women have had to deal with abuse forever; it is something to see in broad daylight, for all to witness, and know that he’s STILL the U.S. President.

millseckert.bsky.social2

He’s just a pathetic liar. The orange makeup is also caked on to a degree previously unseen. He looked like Ronald McDonald.

salbr29891.bsky.social2

True. Every time they allow him on it gives him a free advertisement to confuse people, which is his goal.

Marie 🇨🇦 🐸
@pawbaby2.bsky.social

Watch Trump completely crash out on NBC’s Meet the Press when Kristen Welker presses him about his false claims. He starts yelling about “fake” News, turns bright red, gets visibly agitated, then abruptly gets up and walks off. #USDemocracy #Pinks

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Marie 🇨🇦 🐸31

For someone who claims he’s always in control, this looked like a full meltdown on national TV. 👀🍿

grandpapat1964.bsky.social17

If the media keeps pushing him maybe he'll stroke out.

Z3R0🇲🇽10

Someone should tell the Ellison's that all that groveling, kneeling, bootlicking and a$$licking has been for nothing. 🥲

Ali Adair7

“There’s more evidence than ever presented.” 🤪 …in the entire history of the world?!?

l’il bigisland6

He’s hysterical, unhinged & overly emotional. His lack of self control & decorum is on full display. He is unfit for any public office.

marc 🇪🇺6

Good job Lady. This piece of DNA shit is the worst, but emotions can push to the limits. Women please continue to fight like this and make him emotional to a point he breaks down more often. Don't Be Quiet...Ladies. 🙏

terrible towelie5

he's a fucking clown, a lowlife, demented asshole

Janeen1233

Trump can’t handle the TRUTH!

Bobbie the Enby Dartist3

What a gutless coward. It’s pathetic that this spineless slug managed to con tens of millions of people into thinking he was some kind of tough man. Ask him one question he doesn’t like and he has a tantrum. He’s a toddler.

Beautiful Songs🗽3

Trump has red face like a devil.

Barry Jones2

Kristen Welker was fantastic here - didn't budge, didn't let him get away with anything, pushed back hard on all his lies. Fantastic to see! Thank Dog for strong women journalists!

davidkc.bsky.social2

And Welker is going to give the toddler a do-over. Pathetic.

💙Beebs2

Headed for the sea of porta-potties!

Middle Manager Mom ☕️2

The way he struggled to get up and begin moving looks like he is not well. Explains why so much of his speaking has been seated from the Oval Office. Jesus. He reminded me of someone after surgery or a major illness.

Gloria Thompson2

Trump hobbled off hunched over after taking a swipe at Kristen's shoulder?.. Trump's administration lost over 60 election cases that they filed against the 2020 elections and no amount of temper tantrums and talking over Kristen loudly changes that fact..

We F’ing Told You So 🏳️‍🌈2

Well, he did abruptly get up... but, he seemed to struggle to do it.

@KeepItBlueDems.bsky.social2

Trump is completely unhinged & unwell. His lies have finally caught up with him. I hope he strokes out.

Michelangelo Signorile
@msignorile.bsky.social

I’m sure Kristen Welker saw it as feather in her cap that Trump never walked off an interview w/her--probably bragged about it. (It’s because she rarely pushed him to tell the truth or corrected him.) Well, her streak ended and it was pathetic seeing her beg him to stay or set up another interview.

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