{"id":244816,"date":"2026-06-07T16:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T16:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/donald-trump-abruptly-ends-interview-leaves-set-after-ranting-about-rigged-elections-crooked-media-video\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T16:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T16:25:14","slug":"donald-trump-abruptly-ends-interview-leaves-set-after-ranting-about-rigged-elections-crooked-media-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/donald-trump-abruptly-ends-interview-leaves-set-after-ranting-about-rigged-elections-crooked-media-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Abruptly Ends Interview, Leaves Set After Ranting About &#8216;Rigged Elections&#8217; &#038; &#8216;Crooked&#8217; Media (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-2226257\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- Franchise logo or primary category --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- post title --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/post title --><\/p>\n<p><!-- subheader --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"tpd-post-thumbnail-container caption_belowImage credit_onImage\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit-text\">Credit: YouTube<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \/post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/donald-trump\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Donald Trump<\/strong><\/a> abruptly ended an interview with NBC News\u2019 <em>Meet the Press<\/em> after an exchange with journalist <strong>Kristen Welker<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>They were speaking about elections, and <strong>Welker <\/strong>noted, \u201cRepublicans are doing well in California\u201d to which Trump responded, \u201cthey\u2019re dropping fast because it\u2019s a rigged election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After speaking about the voting process in California, <strong>Welker <\/strong>said, \u201cthat\u2019s how they count the votes in California.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump <\/strong>then responded with a wild claim: \u201cDo you know why they\u2019re doing that? Because they\u2019re cheating on the election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She asked for proof of this, and he said, \u201call I have to do is look\u201d and \u201cI listen to people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then ranted further about his distrust of mostly every news network, and said, \u201cYou\u2019re a one-sided crooked network. Let\u2019s call it quits because I\u2019ve had enough. Thank you, darling. Have a good time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She then asked him to stay, and he said, \u201cI sat in the rain with you for an hour\u2026.On and off in the rain, and I\u2019ve given you enough time. You ought to straighten out your press. A country can never be great with a dishonest press.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trump says \u2018I\u2019d pay\u2019 anti-weaponization fund applicants \u2018the kind of money they deserve\u2019\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eCryZlXg7Uk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-nbc-news-is-fact-checking-this-donald-trump-interview-here-s-what-they-said-about-his-election-claims\">NBC News is fact checking this Donald Trump interview. Here\u2019s what they said about his election claims <\/h3>\n<p>\u201cTrump is pointing to the long vote count in California, which is the result of the state\u2019s election rules and reliance on mail-in voting, long a target of ridicule for the president.More than 80% of California\u2019s voters cast a ballot by mail in recent elections. Ballots that are postmarked by election day can be accepted up to a week afterward, when they must be validated, processed and tallied. States that vote largely in-person often report results more quickly because that process can happen at the polls with the voter present.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump noted that Republicans\u2019 margins in some races are \u201cdropping fast\u201d as the vote is counted. But that is not due to fraud as he claimed. Democratic voters have been more likely to embrace mail-in voting, particularly in the post-Covid era, so as those ballots are counted, Democratic candidates\u2019 numbers tend to improve.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-in-other-trump-news-his-birthday-ufc-event-has-seen-some-a-list-celebrities-turning-him-down\">In other Trump news, his birthday UFC event has seen some A-list celebrities turning him down<\/h3>\n<p>Find out which celebrities have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/06\/07\/ufc-freedom-250-guest-list-4-celebrities-turn-down-trump-white-house-event-3-more-invited\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">turned down the invitation<\/a>, and who has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/06\/07\/ufc-freedom-250-guest-list-4-celebrities-turn-down-trump-white-house-event-3-more-invited\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">refused to reveal if they\u2019re attending<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"categories single-categories\">Posted To:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/donald-trump\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/kristen-welker\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kristen Welker<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/politics\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Politics<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/06\/07\/donald-trump-abruptly-ends-interview-leaves-set-after-ranting-about-rigged-elections-crooked-media-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: YouTube Donald Trump abruptly ended an interview with NBC News\u2019 Meet the Press after an exchange with journalist Kristen Welker. They were speaking about elections, and Welker noted, \u201cRepublicans are doing well in California\u201d to which Trump responded, \u201cthey\u2019re dropping fast because it\u2019s a rigged election.\u201d After speaking about the voting process in California, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":244818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-244816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}