Fox News’ regular broadcast was interrupted for a Donald Trump announcement this evening (Tuesday, October 14), as the US President shut down a reporter from the ABC channel during a heated press conference. Trump, who was taking questions from reporters in the White House, didn’t hold back when the ABC reporter attempted to ask him a question a day after his historic Gaza ceasefire speech.
When the reporter started speaking, the world leader furiously snapped: “I don’t take questions from ABC fake news…. After what you did with Stephanopoulos to the United States vice president, I don’t take questions from ABC fake news.” He then swiftly moved on and continued with the press event and appeared willing to listen to other reporters.
Viewers flocked to X to comment on Trump’s cutting remark, with one penning: “He meant it.” Another said: “He calls them out whenever and however.”
A third said: “ABC must feel like that one group chat you never reply to.” However, another said: “Unbelievably petty and thin-skinned.”
It comes a year after ABC agreed to pay $15 million for Trump’s presidential library to settle a lawsuit over reporter George Stephanopoulos’ inaccurate on-air reporting that he’d been found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll.
The station said in a statement at the time: “We are pleased that the parties have reached an agreement to dismiss the lawsuit on the terms in the court filing.”
Earlier today, guests assembled in the White House Rose Garden for the Medal of Freedom ceremony to honour the late Charlie Kirk, who was killed in September in front of crowds. His widow, Erika, was among those attending the event in memory of the activist and campaigner.
Trump said of Kirk’s death, which rocked the nation: “It’s a horrible, heinous, demonic act of murder.”
The world leader, who just returned from the Middle East, insisted: “I would not have missed this moment for anything in the world.”