Trump to Welker on MTP: "You're either crooked or you're stupid. I've had enough. Thank you darling,"

[Miles Archer]

Aaron Rupar
‪@atrupar.com‬
WOW - Trump crashes out & cuts his interview w/ Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged

"You're either crooked or you're stupid. I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her"

"I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads

WOW - Trump crashes out & cuts his interview w/ Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged

"You're either crooked or you're stupid. I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her"

"I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-06-07T14:50:42.139Z

[Diamond_Dog]

1. Pig

[Mr.Bee]

35. Angry King Donald!

King Donnie the H8

[niyad]

51. We should not insult our porcine brethren that way.

[Diamond_Dog]

71. Point taken.

How about “despicable misogynist “?

[niyad]

77. Much better. You are still much kinder than I !

[SheltieLover]

2. Quiet, donnie dunce

[Grim Chieftain]

14. Oinker-in-Chief

[SheltieLover]

32. Yes! No offense to those intended by Nature to be pigs.

[yellow dahlia]

3. It was insane!

He is insane!

[OGBuzz]

34. I was hoping for men in white to show up carrying an XXXlarge straight jacket.

[yellow dahlia]

45. If the press would fact check him more, and push him more - it would be inevitable

that a straight jacket would be the only answer.

[underpants]

4. Jesus I thought he was actually pop or light on fire.

He’s not used to anyone showing anything less than praise and fealty.

He walks just after the 2:00 mark.

[gab13by13]

5. Finish the interview without him

Blast him for not being able to answer your question.

[highplainsdem]

16. She should have finished it, but I disagree about blasting him. Just coolly summarize the lack of evidence

and Trump's losses in court because of the lack of evidence. Calmly make his tantrum look much worse.

[ProfessorGAC]

72. At The Very Least...

...she could have said "I'm neither crooked nor stupid, and if that's all you've got, it's best the interview is over anyway."

[chicoescuela]

6. He did look like he was about to stroke out.

He had an amazing shade of orange however and looked even more ridiculous than usual.
8647

[underpants]

19. 🔥

[EndlessMaze]

56. .....are competing with your IQ.

[wnylib]

83. It was a reddish orange, with a white streak near his ear.

He must do his own makeup. No makeup artist would do such a messed up, ugly job.

[JBTaurus83]

7. He's going to do everything possible

To fuck up the next election.

[Hey Joe]

8. Well Dipshit, You are both crooked AND stupid!

Would love to see, just once, one of these highly
paid stenographers clap back on his immature insults.
His obvious lies about election fraud are so without merit that they REQUIRE more pushback from what is left of our press.
What a child our “president” is.

[PatSeg]

20. In fairness, Welker did push back several times

But he uses his old tiresome tactic of talking loudly over her and drowning out her words.

That said, I wonder what his doctors think of his nose. I remember when my brother's nose looked like that and it was skin cancer.

[FakeNoose]

30. At least he didn't say "Quiet Piggy"

Chump's big problem (well, one of his many problems) is that he can't listen to anyone for any length of time. He can't formulate an answer on-the-fly, and he makes things worse when he goofs or says something that wasn't planned. Kristen Welker isn't going to tip off the President what questions she plans to ask, so there's no advance planning on this one.

He thinks he can BS his way through any interview by making it up as he goes along. And most of the time he gets away with it because no reporter calls him on his lies and inventions. Kristen is having none of that, so "Good for her!"

We've all seen the interviews where Barack Obama could make quick adjustments and change course when someone objects or questions him. He was always ready to backtrack and take it in another direction when necessary. But Chump can't do any of that. He can't handle it, so he just gets up and walks out.

It's called "The Shart of the Deal."

[PatSeg]

39. Though after insulting her and her network,

he called her "darling". Guess he holds her in a slightly higher category, though whenever he uses the word "darling" it makes me cringe.

He has been pulling this crap since way before he went into politics. His idea of an "interview" is he talks and everyone else just listens.

"The Shart of the Deal."

[bedazzled]

43. I rhink the "darling" was just a reminder that he thinks she is a second class human

Unworthy of respect because she's a woman.

To him, you are either an object of lust or a worthless pig.

[PatSeg]

63. I agree

Whenever men have called me "darling" it was condescending and dismissive.

[ShazzieB]

84. Not just a woman. A woman of color.

He thinks white women are second class citizens. I think black women are even lower than that in his estimation. He seems to hold them in utter contempt.

[whathehell]

44. Yes, in his mouth "darling" or any

other endearment is just sexist condescension.

[PatSeg]

64. Absolutely

Yet he used to say repeatedly that he "cherishes" women. It seemed to me that he didn't know what the word meant. Such an ugly monster.

[Disaffected]

9. At least she stood up to that

crazy bastard.

[underpants]

17. Yes she did.

[kimbutgar]

10. What a f'ing jerk

So disrespectful and insane. He lost 2020 and most likely 2024. He know about rigged elections because his minions did the rigging.

Talk about projection! 🤬

[Ritabert]

11. Paging Dr. Freud....bring a strait of Hormuz jacket.

[City Lights]

12. Awww, Baby needs his Binky!

He is the most repulsive person on the planet. If he can't have everything his way, he has a tantrum. I remain baffled as to how anyone can believe in him or admire him. He is a toxic dump of a human.

[superpatriotman]

13. Beyond disgusting

The fascist is in the nude.

[struggle4progress]

15. He's an automated verbal diarrhea machine

[paleotn]

18. Go dies somewhere in horrible pain, ya orange fuck!

[BeneteauBum]

21. He hates it when a woman stands up to him

He is a hateful, deceitful old fool.

Peace ☮️

[ShepKat]

22. can't wait

just can't wait for a journalist to say and do that first to his face and storm out

[OGBuzz]

36. Just get up and call him the worst president ever and walk out. That person will

instantly become appreciated and loved around the world. They will write their own ticket.

[Buns_of_Fire]

23. Leave him to Faux, Newsmax, OAN, and Joe Rogan.

There's no useful information to be mined there, and the only bright spot would be if one of the interviewers finally had enough and broke his mouth.

[riversedge]

24. 'we both acknowledged the complications-POSED BY THE RAIN" ! says Welker at the end. whow.......

guess she has to keep her job and be as deceptive as Trump. Sorry to see this as I thought she was doing grand during the interview and doing her best to stand up to the bully IMHO

[Cheezoholic]

25. Our first look at him getting up and walking non-scripted. Yes, physically he seems pretty feeble....and FAT! n/t

[Klarkashton]

26. The lastest bullshit is the "rigged California election"

Of course there is zero evidence of any of it.
He is a lunatic.

[Ray Bruns]

27. In other words

[LetMyPeopleVote]

28. I stand with Kristen Welker and all of the journalists Trump has attacked over the years.

Link to tweet

[LetMyPeopleVote]

86. MaddowBlog-On election claims, Trump triggered by 'evidence' callout on 'Meet the Press' interview

Trump is sometimes confronted with a word that practically causes a presidential allergic reaction: “evidence.” Trouble soon follows.

Of course Triggered Trump abandoned his MTP interview: Kristen Welker used the one word that practically causes a presidential allergic reaction:

“Evidence.”
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-06-08T12:08:36.770Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-meet-the-press-interview-election-claims

In the years following his defeat in the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump would routinely boast that he’d soon present evidence in support of his absurd electoral conspiracy theories. That never happened, of course, because there was no evidence to share: The Republican lost fair and square.....

Nearly three months later, the president sat down with NBC News’ Kristen Welker for his latest “Meet the Press” interview, and when the host dared to use the “e” word, he couldn’t simply shift his focus to a different reporter, so he instead abruptly ended the interview. MS NOW reported:

“You’re either crooked or you’re stupid,” Trump told Welker, who kept a cool demeanor despite the president’s barrage of disparaging slurs.

Moments before he attacked her, Trump — without providing any evidence — said he believes elections in the U.S. are rigged. Then he lambasted television news networks, singling out NBC, CBS and ABC.

“They’re crooked just like you’re crooked, your press is crooked. And ‘Meet the Press’ is crooked,” Trump said.

In context, there was no great mystery as to what triggered the president and generated his interview-ending meltdown: After Trump wrapped up a conspiratorial rant about Jan. 6 rioters, Welker emphasized for viewers, “Just to be very clear, there’s no evidence of what you’re saying.” He was clearly not pleased......

And so, he unraveled, ultimately walking away from questions he simply wasn’t prepared to answer, raised by a journalist who dared to ask him to back up his baseless claims.

WOW - Trump crashes out & cuts his interview w/ Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged

"You're either crooked or you're stupid. I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her"

"I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-06-07T14:50:42.139Z

It was a timely reminder of a few unavoidable observations. First, Trump tends not to do lengthy interviews with independent news organizations, which leaves him unprepared when they ask the kind of questions conservative outlets avoid.

Second, and relatedly, it’s no secret that the president has surrounded himself with sycophants and yes-men at the White House. He grew visibly enraged with Welker, not just because she professionally pushed back against obvious falsehoods, but also because she exposed Trump to reality in ways that obviously made him uncomfortable.

And third, amid public discussion about his mental fitness, the president’s furious reaction suggested he’s also struggling to regulate his emotional outbursts.

As for the near future, the unpleasant exchange on NBC News should hopefully lead to additional questions in which Trump is again pressed for the 2020 evidence he claims exists, but which he’s refused to show.

[hatrack]

29. LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!

LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!!!

And did you learn anything new when you obeyed the command to LOOK AT ME!!!!

Yeah, I didn't think so either.

[hibbing]

31. Such a tough guy

[sheshe2]

33. Damn!!!!!

I was really waiting for him to blow a gasket there. The man is not healthy.



There he goes. Boom!

[choie]

37. Expect an apology

from Kristen Welker and NBC in 1...2...

[murielm99]

38. I hope not.

Silence would be better. We shall see.

[AverageOldGuy]

40. Trump's audience loved it

Trump is not talking to us. He’s talking to Fox, OANN, Joe Rogan, UGC fight fans, the guys who drive loud jacked-up pickups. . .

[Charmin One]

70. That's true

I texted a MAGAT and he said he loved what Trump did. The MAGAT also called me a libtard.

[Martin68]

41. She's naive if this is not what she expected.

[orangecrush]

42. He sat there and slandered her

That's when she should have told HIM the interview was over

[Farmer-Rick]

46. OMG his face is sooooo orange

In the side shot you can see where he stopped applying his very dark orange makeup. Why does he need makeup? Does he feel ugly when he isn't orange or isn't all dolled up in makeup? Maybe he should try some eyeliner, mascara rouge. Then it wouldn't be so stark. It's as if a clown applied his makeup.

I suspect he looks gray under that orange. That's the color people get when they can not get rid of fluids pooling in their body. It's a light gray tinge to a very pale skin tone.

[Dulcinea]

49. He shows a lot of the symptoms of CHF.

One day we'll find out what's really wrong. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/17069-heart-failure-understanding-heart-failure

[RockCreek]

47. Textbook example of a man weaponizing an "endearment" (darling) at a woman.

Although "man" should not really be used to describe that piece of orange excrement.

[Ritabert]

48. He looks totally unhinged.

[malaise]

50. And he dared to touch her

Let that sink in

[niyad]

57. Dear Goddess, this insanity has to stop.

[MustLoveBeagles]

87. I would've knocked his hand away

[Six117]

52. Oh we know for a fact

he is both crooked and stupid.
Good for Ms.Welker.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

53. Every accusation by piggy is a confession

[GiqueCee]

54. The balding Orange Gargoyle...

... is so broken and brain-dead that he is incapable of giving a straight answer to ANY question, and when Ms Welker pressed him, as any responsible journalist should, he threw an infantile tantrum, insulted her, and stomped out.
Any denizens of the dark shadowlands of KKKonservatism that still admire this repulsive, boorish pig deserve what fate befalls them as a result of his mindless malice and grotesque incompetence. The rest of us do not.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

55. 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

[malaise]

61. Undiluted scum

That is all

[tikka]

58. I haven't heard of J6rs commiting suicide. Any numbers or another lie or did he transpose police suicides

[Miles Archer]

60. More like scum like Enrique Tarrio saying "Why, YES. I WOULD like a slice of that slush fund."

The other thing we will NEVER KNOW is how many Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are sporting masks and ICE uniforms.

I refuse to believe that their ranks are fully devoid of their presence.

[IcyPeas]

75. He transposed J6rs with ICE detainees:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/ice-detainees-dying-by-suicide-at-alarming-rate-ap-investigation-finds

[kentuck]

59. Least bit of pushback and he cracks...

If they are "fake news" and dirty, why does he go on their shows??

Because he doesn't usually care what the questions are, he gives the answers he wants to give. He sees it as an opportunity to keep lying to the American people and not have to answer for it.

Kudos to Welker for pressing him just a little today. That is more pushback than he is accustomed to. He could not handle it.

He said Comey was a "dirty cop". How would he know? He wasn't around long enough for him to find out and he certainly wasn't around during the Biden years? He fired him very early in his first term.

He was in charge when January 6th happened? It was his AG and Attorney General that chose to press charges against the cop beaters of January 6th. Biden was not yet in office. They only continued his efforts to prosecute the offenders of January 6th.

His timeline doesn't hold up under scrutiny.

[Miles Archer]

62. He goes on the shows because he's spooked networks into paying him millions for no good reason

There's an important scene in the first "Expendables" movie (Stallone / Statham / Willis).

Eric Roberts, as drug lord James Munroe, tells David Zayas as General Garza that he's got to shoot 3 of his men who betrayed him as "an example to the others."

Trump's crowed like a rooster about the money he's made from his lawsuits.

And, he reads off a laundry list to Welker of the networks who are "crooked" (basically everyone but Fox and Newsmax).

So it's more Phony Soprano mob boss-speak for "What I did to them, I can do to you."

Also more of his rapist mindset in action.

[kentuck]

68. He also knows that the "networks" have larger audiences than cable generally speaking...

And he wants to get his propaganda out to as large an audience as possible.

But he doesn't want to be challenged in any way.

He leaves little doubt about what he can do to them. Maybe they will pay him huge gobs of money?

[sop]

65. Had cameras not been rolling Trump would have physically attacked Welker.

[senseandsensibility]

66. Ew. She "pleads"?

I submit that this is the problem right there. The appropriate response when he insults and demeans you is not to "plead" for him to finish the interview. Wow. Just when I thought my opinion of "access" journalists could not sink lower.

[Cha]

80. Actually PEDO looked so "pathetic" & Stupid

He has Nothing but lies, so he lashes out Projecting his Crooked Stupidity.

And yes, I know Journalists should stand up to that quivering mass of evil shite.

TY!

[MerryBlooms]

67. Sir, with all due respect, I'm not the one whose family was court ordered

On how to not run rip off charity organizations. 😂

[sakabatou]

69. He's projecting again

[D_Master81]

74. This is what happens

This is what happens and will continue to happen anytime an interviewer challenges him and doesnt just accept his BS responses. Interviewing the POTUS has officially become pointless.

[Raine]

76. He's so tacky and classless

total trash, his whole family.

[MustLoveBeagles]

88. A textbook example of money not buying class

If there ever was one.

[Liberal In Texas]

78. He's Fleeing the Interview! He's Fleeing the Interview!

His face is red as a beet.
Kudos to her for trying to get him to answer the question in a legitimate manner.
Still, she could have pushed harder
"I won an election in a landslide..." Should have been answered by " that wasn't a landslide..."
and her "I had to travel to Wisconsin..." Pahleez! Who cares. Really.

[Miles Archer]

79. Yeah. 11 years into his political career and there are still people...

...who think they can appeal to his "better self," which is tragic, because he doesn't have a better self.

[Hugin]

81. It's interesting how he does not mention NBC in his litany of crooked networks.

About 44 seconds in he says MTP and the rest of the networks.

[Torchlight]

82. Mr trump came off looking rode hard and put away wet

I can see why the rw wants to make it about her... otherwise, they'd have to talk his behavior and the content of his words, and that's far too inconvenient to his stooges.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

85. MaddowBlog-On election claims, Trump triggered by 'evidence' callout on 'Meet the Press' interview

Trump is sometimes confronted with a word that practically causes a presidential allergic reaction: “evidence.” Trouble soon follows.

Of course Triggered Trump abandoned his MTP interview: Kristen Welker used the one word that practically causes a presidential allergic reaction:

“Evidence.”
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-06-08T12:08:36.770Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-meet-the-press-interview-election-claims

In the years following his defeat in the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump would routinely boast that he’d soon present evidence in support of his absurd electoral conspiracy theories. That never happened, of course, because there was no evidence to share: The Republican lost fair and square.....

Nearly three months later, the president sat down with NBC News’ Kristen Welker for his latest “Meet the Press” interview, and when the host dared to use the “e” word, he couldn’t simply shift his focus to a different reporter, so he instead abruptly ended the interview. MS NOW reported:

“You’re either crooked or you’re stupid,” Trump told Welker, who kept a cool demeanor despite the president’s barrage of disparaging slurs.

Moments before he attacked her, Trump — without providing any evidence — said he believes elections in the U.S. are rigged. Then he lambasted television news networks, singling out NBC, CBS and ABC.

“They’re crooked just like you’re crooked, your press is crooked. And ‘Meet the Press’ is crooked,” Trump said.

In context, there was no great mystery as to what triggered the president and generated his interview-ending meltdown: After Trump wrapped up a conspiratorial rant about Jan. 6 rioters, Welker emphasized for viewers, “Just to be very clear, there’s no evidence of what you’re saying.” He was clearly not pleased......

And so, he unraveled, ultimately walking away from questions he simply wasn’t prepared to answer, raised by a journalist who dared to ask him to back up his baseless claims.

WOW - Trump crashes out & cuts his interview w/ Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged

"You're either crooked or you're stupid. I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her"

"I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-06-07T14:50:42.139Z

It was a timely reminder of a few unavoidable observations. First, Trump tends not to do lengthy interviews with independent news organizations, which leaves him unprepared when they ask the kind of questions conservative outlets avoid.

Second, and relatedly, it’s no secret that the president has surrounded himself with sycophants and yes-men at the White House. He grew visibly enraged with Welker, not just because she professionally pushed back against obvious falsehoods, but also because she exposed Trump to reality in ways that obviously made him uncomfortable.

And third, amid public discussion about his mental fitness, the president’s furious reaction suggested he’s also struggling to regulate his emotional outbursts.

As for the near future, the unpleasant exchange on NBC News should hopefully lead to additional questions in which Trump is again pressed for the 2020 evidence he claims exists, but which he’s refused to show.

[Bailey1122]

89. Impotent rage🤡

[LetMyPeopleVote]

91. Welcome to DU

[Bailey1122]

92. Thank you :)

[kentuck]

90. She did what no one else has been able to do...

She did not let his lies go unchallenged.

She told him, "There is no evidence for that".

When he vehemently claimed that the CA election was "rigged", she told him that was the way CA counted their votes.

Someone needs to tell him he needs to keep his nose out of our elections. He has no authority.

He could not handle being questioned on his lies. Because they are the foundation for his conspiracy theories and his next attack on our democracy.

The truth must be defended.