The interview aired during Sunday’s episode of Meet the Press.
After Welker repeatedly accused Trump of making claims with “no evidence,” Trump had enough and lashed out, saying, “Your elections are crooked, and you’re crooked, and meet the press is crooked, and so is ABC and CBS and CNN.”
“You’re one-sided, crooked networks. Let’s call it quits because I’ve had enough,” Trump continued as he pulled the microphone off his jacket and tossed it on the ground, making a thud.
Trump then stood up and squashed the microphone with his foot as he walked away, making it crunch. It did not appear to be intentional, but the moment was hilariously emblematic of the entire exchange.
WATCH:
(…) “I love the idea,” he said of his $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund, adding, “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, they sent people to jail who did nothing wrong!”
And as Welker tried to defend California’s vote counting process, claiming “that’s how they vote in California,” Trump fired back, “Do you think it’s appropriate that they have an election, and five days later, they’re nowhere close to picking a winner?… You’re either crooked or you’re stupid!”