CNN cuts to Donald Trump's press conference moments before he labels them 'fake news'
A CNN anchor cut off one of the network's journalists to tune in to a press conference held by President Donald Trump, just before he called the network "fake news" on live TV.
During a CNN broadcast on Wednesday, June 25, an anchor unexpectedly interrupted their correspondent in Israel to switch coverage to President Donald Trump's press event.
In a swift and awkward transition, the CNN anchor apologized and cut straight to Trump speaking with Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof at the NATO summit, saying: "Nick I'm so sorry to interrupt you, but the president is at The Hague speaking with the Dutch Prime Minister. Let's listen in."
The switch occurred moments before Trump denounced the network as "fake news" during the live broadcast.
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Once the feed shifted to the conference, the Dutch PM expressed gratitude to the President: "Thank you Mr. President. I think we made a big achievement in NATO today and go in agreeing only 5% and making a real big step forward in our working together and defense industry and make sure that we got the deterrence and defense in the western world. Europe, America, Canada together make it strong thank you very much."
Trump briefly acknowledged his upcoming media briefing, adding: "We're going to have a press conference in a couple of minutes so thank you very much. Great statements just came out form the Israeli atomic energy commission and from Iran as you know that it was complete total destruction."
Trump went on to openly criticize the news network as he stated: "And CNN turned out to be fake news as always. That's why they have no credibility. That's why they have no viewers."
The host responded to his comments, saying: "We've just heard the President of the United States again taking issue with the reporting of the initial defense assessment, assessing the effectiveness of the U.S strikes."
This statement follows Trump's previous day's criticism of CNN and The New York Times as "scum" for suggesting that US strikes did not completely eliminate Iranian nuclear sites. These events occurred in the aftermath of the United State's "Operation Midnight Hammer," where the US military attacked three different Iranian nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan.
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Featuring an assault of over 125 U.S. aircraft, the operation deployed GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs along with Tomahawk missiles. The Trump administration has declared that the purpose of these strikes was to block Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon.
Addressing the results of the attack, Trump remarked: "I believe it was total obliteration, I believe they didn't have a chance to get anything out because we acted fast. It's hard to remove that kind of material - very hard and very dangerous."
