'I've Had Enough!' Trump Storms Out of Meet the Press Interview in Wild Fashion -- Explodes On NBC's Kristen Welker

[Mr. Sparkle]

Source: Mediaite.com

President Donald Trump stormed out of a Meet the Press interview Sunday — after moderator Kristen Welker repeatedly fact-checked his claims on a variety of topics including; Jan. 6, his “anti-weaponization” fund, and election fraud.

The heated six-minute final block of the interview began with Welker pressing Trump about the $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund he continues to promote — despite his administration officially abandoning its efforts to launch the fund. Welker pressed — attempting to confirm that Trump is indeed throwing in the towel.

“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 asked.

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[eppur_se_muova]

1. Looks good to his base, I'm sure. nt

Trmp's idea of an "argument":

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

3. I'm sure this was why they scheduled it.

He probably planned to walk off all along. Will use the footage as "proof" of media bias against MAGA.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

45. His ever-shrinking base

[Layzeebeaver]

58. From photos it appears his "base" is expanding

Especially around the cankles…

[Hugin]

2. A Tim Conway-esque "storm" I presume.

*click* shuffle-shuffle-shuffle *click* shuffle-shuffle-shuffle *click*

[AloeVera]

8. Omg I remember! Hilarious...

[Hugin]

15. FaceBook Warning: So the 'yute are informed. Here's the reference.

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[AloeVera]

32. Loved Carol Burnett as a kid. Might start to watch again, need some laughs.

Can't wait to see Trump clamber out of a chair like that!

Thanks for the laugh.

[Ilsa]

48. I've been thinking about doing that as well.

Need a good laugh not related to current politics.

[Tetrachloride]

4. TACO

[underpants]

5. Good for Welker. Totally embarrassing. I know what their spin will be

Oh! She had to travel ALL THE WAY TO WISCONSIN….global elite, fly over states, etc.

Trump being the asshole he is
Let’s call it quits because I’ve had enough. Thank you, darling. Have a good time.

[wnylib]

27. He's a drama queen.

[Raftergirl]

6. His fanboys will say he owned the lib journalist. They live in BizzaroWorld where down is up and left is right.

[Leghorn21]

10. Exactly, girl

He’S a FiGhTeR!! 😵‍💫

[displacedvermoter]

7. Even when she is in the right and is asking what passes for tough questions,

she lets him call her and all her journalist colleagues crooks, and really only seems pissed cause she went all the way to Wisconsin to be made a fool of. She could have stayed in her studio and he could have phoned in the insults...

[WiVoter]

11. I'm Not A Fan Of Ms. Welker

T was her first guest as host of MTP.

[Submariner]

9. She should have given him a copy of the FBI Form 302

of the first interview in 2019 with the woman raped as a 13 year old in 1992, and asked him WTF is up with this you pedophile.

But no one ever asks.

Is it fear of the interior decorator with the nuclear codes, or just media complicity to drag out the story and help rip the country apart?

[WiVoter]

12. Goddamn, He's Painted Up A Glowing Orange Today

Holy shit

[underpants]

28. 😡

[Blue Full Moon]

13. He just did the same thing at a talk with farmers.

[KPN]

14. Excellent! To any sane person, Trump showed

his true character … cruel, bully, juvenile, irrational, volatile for a start.

Hopefully, enough sane people vote in 2026 and 2028 to restore sanity to the WH, the country and the globe.

[hamsterjill]

17. Yeah, he's losing the ability to control himself.

We need more of this type of interview until he finally throws some ketchup on live television.

[3catwoman3]

30. Or lack of character.

[Festivito]

16. His evidence should have gone to the FBI. Previously, it didn't make it to the courts.

If he saw f b I agents, letting people into the white house on january sixth, then those f b I agents should have been brought to trial.

When he claimed there was fraud in the twenty twenty election, he didn't bother to give the lawyers any evidence. Which ends with the lawyers being disbarred, or in the process of being disbarred, because they presented a case with no evidence.

One would think a good journalist would know this.

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

59. I guess he forgot who was president on Jan. 6

His crew was in charge of the FBI, she should have mentioned that.

[kairos12]

18. Not storm. Lumbers.

[Hugin]

20. Shambles. n/t

[Bluetus]

37. The body is almost as bad as the brain. I don't know why there is little notice of

the fact that he rarely stands for any public appearance now.

All those Oval Office shots have him in the middle (no surprise) but nowadays he is almost always seated with his posse behind him. And when he sits, he falls asleep in the most obvious posture. These scenes look to me like people standing around a hospital bed, waiting for the guy to die.

The only way he could stay awake in the NBNC interview was that he was screaming continuously. And to him, this is normal. Tomorrow he won't even remember it -- literally. That is how dementia works. I've seen it 1000 times. And I guess he has already agreed to a follow-up interview with Welker. WTF? This guy is pretty close to flatline mentally.

[lostincalifornia]

19. Fuck the MSM. They created this deviant called trump, and now are surprised when the

monster turns on them.

[PATRICK]

21. The illusion of engagement

So not disappearing from questioning like Reagan or vacationing like Bush,Jr.("Now watch this drive!&quot we are going to get condensed rage and rant outs instead of any sustained policy explanations. At least they are short outbursts and the Truth Social posts are done on sycophant crutches. BS and rage, cutting questions short. Maybe they will let his appearances fall apart rather than biting their nails when he attempts one of those marathon rants on live TV hepped up on the devil knows what and in steep physical decline.

The only thing his "friends" are happy with is bowing to his will. If it is suicidal all the better for their eventual move to phase 2. Real danger of course in getting blame from the suspicious hordes of Trump enthusiasts. Doctors, advisors? Scapegoating the news media for stressing him? God knows they have shamefully enabled his moral decline and crimes to the nth degree as the irritated Ringmaster Foxtrots toward July 4th. Despite his paranoia it is his sycophants keeping him dancing in the silly stuff to his detriment.

[FloridaBlues]

22. The mind of this man lives in total fantasy. It will get worse.

[paleotn]

23. Keep up the pressure!!

Actually and figuratively. A massive CVA can't be too far away.

[ChicagoTeamster]

24. The POS is just connecting the MAGA dog whistles with GOP gibberish to rile up the base so they turn out in November.

[mwmisses4289]

25. Oh, look, toddler throwing a temper tantrum because an adult is making him

acknowledge his bad behavior.

https://giphy.com/gifs/crying-screaming-whiney-d1ytb3wOL6PiF1iSan

[debsy]

26. What a name-calling, 10-year-old crybaby

So many other things also come to mind but I won’t waste my time.

[AverageOldGuy]

29. Trump is playing to his base.

Listen — you know, I know, everyone at DU knows Trump is a POS.

But we are not who he cares about. This whole thing is performance art aimed at stupid people and they will love it. He owned the libs and that’s what they care about.

Truth , facts, reality — all are irrelevant.

[Bluetus]

31. This is just theater and a failing brain. The real question is ...

Why was he there at all, and not on NewsMax.

Maybe it is to impress the 30% of the population that wants to hang with him, but is having doubts. From inside that wasteland that is called Trump's brain, that very well may be all it is.

However, he had a terrible week. He continues to hemorrhage support among the public. The war is a complete mess. And his biggest problem is that Congressional Republicans are starting to run away from him because the election is now just 5 months away, and 2 of those months are "dog days" when nothing happens. So basically the GOP senators and reps are looking at polls that are lousy. Even if an individual is not in jeopardy, they have no interest in being in the minority. They see nothing positive in June. July and August are basically lost to summer vacations. So they see a 30-day period in September to try to improve their situation before early voting starts. Time is running out, and Trump keeps getting worse.

Therefore, that might be why Trump was on NBC instead of Fox. His people know that if the Dems take even one house, the agenda is over, and if the Dems take both houses, there will be a lot of activity collecting evidence and sworn testimony that can be used to prosecute these criminals if we take the White House in 2029. So these insiders are ready to jump ship. They want no part of the last 2 years if the election goes badly.

My theory is that the insiders pushed Trump to go on NBC in a "Let Trump be Trump" moment.

[Midnight Writer]

33. Reminds me of George HW Bush "storming" off set during an interview with Dan Rather.

That was a set-up, too. Bush's political advisors wanted a dramatic demonstration of "liberal media bias".

His walk-out triggered weeks of follow-up outrage by Right Wing media (Limbaugh and Co.) demanding Dan Rather be fired for asking questions of a Republican.

[hermetic]

34. WE'VE had enough!

Lock him up!!

[LymphocyteLover]

35. He's easily the biggest embarrassment this country has ever produced

[Bayard]

36. Isn't irritability and uncontrolled anger a major symptom of dementia?

[efhmc]

41. Nope, since I have those symptoms on a daily basis here on DU. (outside sources, of course)

[Bayard]

46. Don't we all?

But we don't have the power to carry out our fantasies, or the inclination to wreak havoc and steal the national treasury.

[sop]

38. Trump's fabulist schtick has become so transparent and tiresome, it just isn't working any more, no one's buying his BS.

Pity journalists like Welker took this long to finally confront this lying piece of shit with a tiny bit of reality. They could have saved the country from the Trump nightmare had they just done their jobs.

[Ray Bruns]

39. In other words

[Wednesdays]

57. Or rather...

[ihaveaquestion]

40. This really hits home for me and my husband right now.

We are both dealing with aging parents who are behaving very much like this...irrational, irritable, delusional, and only occasionally rational. It's exhausting!

[choie]

42. I will bet that she's going to apologize.

Because that motherfucker gets away with EVERYTHING.

[Uncle Joe]

43. The President of the United States has the maturity of a four year old, why hasn't the GOP impeached him yet?

Thanks for the thread Mr. Sparkle

[orangecrush]

44. WHEN OH WHEN

Is a member of the press going to stand up to him?

As soon as he said "You're crooked!" She should have replied "I will not tolerate you slandering me, this is over."

WTAF?

[Grim Chieftain]

47. Wow! That's presidential!

Class, dignity, and decorum out the wazoo!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

49. trump didn't just walk out of the interview with Kristen Welker, he THREW the microphone on the floor and STEPPED ON IT

trump is a baby whose feelings were hurt

Link to tweet

[Ilsa]

50. I'm waiting for the interview when

the agonal breathing starts. We'll do an alert on DU and start a timer.

[1WorldHope]

51. I don't know if there was a video of this anywhere, but from just reading it, I felt proud of Kristen Welker.

At least she hung in there. I don't understand why everyone is attacking her. After all we can't expect her to do what nobody else will do. I'm kind of surprised he didn't hit her. Maybe a lot was missed by just reading it and not seeing the interview.

[enough]

53. After taking that abuse from him she was begging him not to walk out.

“Mr President please, I travelled all the way to Wisconsin!”

[1WorldHope]

55. To me that was professional decorum.

[IbogaProject]

52. Storms? He could barely stand up.

Slinks out, or retreated withbout answering to tough questioning are more accurate descriptions.

[twodogsbarking]

54. One blow up closer to ________________________ flatlining.

[Blue Owl]

56. Just fucking die already you miserable pedophile piece of shit

[sinkingfeeling]

60. Time for the 25th. Time for the net and straight jacket. He's a raving lunatic.

[AdamGG]

61. I've fantasized about Dump being interiewed with...

a video screen between him and the interviewer. Then, just have someone at a control panel ready to play different clips of Dump saying the exact opposite things of what he is likely to say in the interview.

The person at the control panel could have 30 different clips ready to roll that completely contradict the things that he is about to say. Then, the interviewer could be politely prepared to say, "Yes, Mr. Prseident, but in August, 2024 you said that this was the case..." and then play the clip and ask for his response.

After a few instances of this (if he got through that many), he would tell the interview how nasty they are and storm out, but it would be fun to watch. Maybe add something around the chair set up so that there are some kind of bars or small steps that he to step over to get into the chair, so that when he storms out there is a chance that in his haste he will trip and fall over them.

I want to watch that.

[hadEnuf]

62. Thete is absolurely no evidence of Trump's claim or any other claims he makes.

He is a compulsive bald-faced liar, and if you don't agrees with his absurdities you are retaliated on by the government. That is the definition of just about every dictatorship that has ever existed.

Wake up, press. Don't matter what network you work for. You do not contradict Trump - or else. Do you like working in that type of toilet?

[twodogsbarking]

63. Did you order the code red *You're God damn right I did!*

[LudwigPastorius]

64. Roy Cohn is looking up from Hell and smiling.

His boy learned his lessons well.