Toddler Throws Tantrum on ‘Meet the Press’; Stomps on Microphone on His Way Out

By now, you’ll have surely heard about how our incredibly stable, capable, and mentally-there president handled himself in an NBC interview with Kristen Welker—by which I mean he interrupted her several times; called her “stupid”; and stormed out early when he was asked to back up a baseless claim. Which, well, take that for a president who can take the heat—and who obviously respects the country’s female journalists!

During the Meet the Press interview, which was filmed on Friday in Chippewa Falls, Wisc., and aired on Sunday, Trump was asked by Welker about the events of his last 18 months in office, aka the whirlwind of shitbaggery that he’s subjected Americans to. For most of the near-40-minute installation, he repeatedly tried to challenge Welker’s questions when, ultimately, he ended up really just upsetting himself. 

Welker kicked off with asking about the war in Iran, which on Sunday reached its 100th day—and which no one in the administration can agree on the status of. “Is the United States at war with Iran?” Welker asked, referring to claims made by State Secretary Marco Rubio that the “war had concluded.” “There is a naval blockade in place, which technically is an act of war under international law.”

Trump replied, “We have the ultimate blockade. I don’t consider that a war, but if you want to define it as such, I guess you can.” OK!

Later, when asked by Welker about his original “no new wars” promise he made for his first-term campaign, he replied, “First of all, I didn’t guarantee no war. Why would I have built the strongest military in the world?” He added: “In the last term, we were a dead country, Kristen. I know you, you’re a big liberal, a big progressive.”

“I’m just a journalist,” Welker coolly responded.

Things started to get particularly heated when Trump was asked about his failed $1.8bn slush fund aimed to reward his biggest toadies, or what the Justice Department called the anti-weaponization fund, and which was ultimately dropped amid several lawsuits and bipartisan backlash. “People have been hurt so badly by radical-left lunatics that worked for the Biden administration and Sleepy Joe,” Trump said. “If it was up to me, I’d pay them the kind of money that they deserve.” 

Welker followed up by asking whether Jan. 6 rioters—who Trump seems to be obsessed with coddling—should have received taxpayer money. “172 people did plead guilty to assaulting police officers. Should they be exempt from receiving funds? You’d be okay with them receiving taxpayer dollars?”

“You know why they pled guilty?” Trump responded (read: interrupted). “They pled guilty because they were frightened. They went down. They were ushered into a building. Many of them were arrested without even going into the building.” He continued, “The people were destroyed by dirty cops and by weaponization. Many of those people should be compensated.” (Reminder that he’s referring to an event that killed five—including a police officer.) 

WATCH — Trump’s ‘Meet the Press’ Tantrum (longer version, with context)

When Welker pushes back on his unhinged lies about the election and grills him on the $1.776 BILLION fund for seditionists who attacked the Capitol he still won’t say is dead, Trump loses it and leaves.

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— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) June 7, 2026 at 7:35 PM

 

As if the rhetoric wasn’t already mind-numbingly insane, Trump continued to follow up. “Now, I don’t know what’s going to happen with the weaponization fund. I love the idea, because people like you, the fake dirty press, the crooked press, people like stupid Biden, he’s not smart enough to know what’s going on, but people that surrounded him, surrounded his beautiful Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, what they did to the lives of people, they destroyed people.” 

Welker, seemingly unfazed, continued asking questions—though things ultimately boiled over as Trump continued defending the Jan. 6 rioters. “The election was rigged. It was a dirty election,” he said, adding: “It’s happening right now in California.”

When Welker asked for some evidence to back the claim that California’s gubernatorial elections are being “rigged,” Trump lost it.

lol Trump stomped on NBC’s microphone when he stormed out of his Meet the Press interview

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 7, 2026

 

“Your elections are crooked and you’re crooked, and Meet the Press is crooked,” he bellowed, to which Welker said, “I’m not crooked.” “You’re either crooked or you’re stupid,” Trump shot back. “Your elections are crooked and you’re crooked, and Meet the Press is crooked. And so is ABC and CBS and CNN. You’re a one-sided crooked network. Sorry. Let’s call it quits because I’ve had enough. Thank you, darling. Have a good time.” 

On his way out, Trump angrily crushed the microphone under his foot. Which, well, seems as good a metaphor for the First Amendment as any.