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Irish Daily Mirror
10 hours ago
- Politics
- Irish Daily Mirror
Trump launches bizarre rant after Iran missile attack on US airbase in Qatar
In a bizarre rant on his Truth Social platform, Donald Trump chose to sidestep the recent Iranian attacks on US airbases in Qatar, instead opting to unleash a tirade against the "sleazebags in the media" in the media and so-called "fake news". His post read: "The sites that we hit in Iran were totally destroyed, and everyone knows it. Only the Fake News would say anything different in order to try and demean, as much as possible - And even they say they were 'pretty well destroyed!'". He targeted specific journalists and media executives, stating: "Working especially hard on this falsehood is Allison Cooper of Fake News CNN, Dumb Brian L. Roberts, Chairman of 'Con'cast, Jonny Karl of ABC Fake News, and always, the Losers of, again, Concast's NBC Fake News. It never ends with the sleazebags in the Media, and that's why their Ratings are at an ALL TIME LOW - ZERO CREDIBILITY!". Meanwhile, the reality on the ground was far more serious. Earlier in the evening, Iran launched a retaliatory missile attack on a US airbase in Qatar, following the American bombing of its nuclear facilities. Eyewitnesses recounted seeing missiles in the air, followed by the sound of explosions, but the full extent of the damage was not yet clear. Iran stated via state television that it had successfully targeted American forces at Qatar's Al Udeid Air Base, reports the Mirror. State TV hailed the attack as "a mighty and successful response" to what it deemed "America's aggression", set to a backdrop of martial music. The move came shortly after Qatar had taken the precaution of closing its airspace in light of Iranian threats. Just before the blasts, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian took to social platform X stating: "We neither initiated the war nor seeking it. But we will not leave invasion to the great Iran without answer." Following the assault, Bahrain – host of the US 5th Fleet's headquarters – temporarily halted flights over its territory, a move similar to Qatar's previous actions just before their own facilities came under fire. After Al Udeid Air Base was hit, Qatar denounced the offensive yet confirmed that the incoming missiles were successfully intercepted with no casualties, and assured that its skies are now secure. The US acknowledged that the air base had been the objective of an Iranian missile strike. Iran retorted by matching the scale of the attack in Qatar to the weekends' US bombings on its nuclear installations, hinting at potential intentions to defuse tensions. It claimed the air base was chosen as a target due to its removed location from civilian areas. Israel escalated its conflict with Iran earlier, attacking infrastructure linked to Iran's beleaguered clerical leadership, including a Tehran prison gate known for detaining political dissidents, and targeting the command centre of the forces quelling recent demonstrations. Plumes of dense smoke billowing above Tehran marked the latest Israeli reprisal, which in turn led to another volley of Iranian rocket and drone fire. This non-stop exchange has become par for the course for civilians in both nations since Israel initiated hostilities focussed on Iran's atomic capabilities.
Daily Mirror
13 hours ago
- Politics
- Daily Mirror
Trump breaks silence with weird rant after US airbase attacked in WW3 fears
Donald Trump issued a weird monologue on his Truth Social website tonight, after Iran attacked US airbases in Qatar. The US President chose to completely ignore the latest developments, and instead started rambling about "sleazebags in the media" and "fake news". He wrote: "The sites that we hit in Iran were totally destroyed, and everyone knows it. Only the Fake News would say anything different in order to try and demean, as much as possible — And even they say they were 'pretty well destroyed!' Working especially hard on this falsehood is Allison Cooper of Fake News CNN, Dumb Brian L. Roberts, Chairman of 'Con'cast, Jonny Karl of ABC Fake News, and always, the Losers of, again, Concast's NBC Fake News. It never ends with the sleazebags in the Media, and that's why their Ratings are at an ALL TIME LOW — ZERO CREDIBILITY!" Iran launched a missile attack on a US airbase in Qatar earlier this evening, retaliating for the American bombing of its nuclear sites. Witnesses reported seeing missiles in the skies, followed by explosions, but it wasn't clear if there was any damage. Iran announced on state television that it attacked American forces stationed at Qatar's Al Udeid Air Base. A caption on screen called it "a mighty and successful response" to "America's aggression" as martial music played. The attack came shortly after Qatar closed its airspace as a precaution amid threats from Iran. Just before the explosions, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian wrote on the social platform X: "We neither initiated the war nor seeking it. But we will not leave invasion to the great Iran without answer."
Yahoo
06-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump swears he doesn't follow ‘fake news' – then goes on rant about CNN, MSNBC and ‘sleazebag journalists'
Donald Trump attacked the media on Wednesday in a Truth Social post, criticizing recent coverage of a clip of him that seized on an interaction where he thanked Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and shook his hand during the president's joint address to Congress earlier this week. 'Like most people, I don't watch Fake News CNN or MSDNC, but I understand they are going 'crazy' asking what is it that I was thanking Justice Roberts for?' Trump wrote, using his pejorative nickname for MSNBC. 'They never called my office to ask, of course, but if they had I would have told these sleazebag 'journalists' that I thanked him for SWEARING ME IN ON INAUGURATION DAY, AND DOING A REALLY GOOD JOB IN SO DOING! The Fake News never quits!' The moment at issue was relatively brief. As Trump mingled with the crowd of dignitaries in the House who gathered Tuesday to watch the address, the president shook Roberts's hand and was recorded saying, 'Thank you again. [I] won't forget it.' Some argued the exchange was emblematic of how the Supreme Court has enabled Trump in recent years. 'We can't know precisely what the president meant, but Trump does have a lot to thank Roberts for,' Adam Serwer writes in The Atlantic. The Supreme Court delivered Trump multiple election-year victories, including a March 2024 decision blocking Colorado's move to strike Donald Trump from its presidential election ballot for his role in January 6, and a July ruling finding that former presidents have broad immunity from criminal prosecution for official actions, effectively ending a federal case against the Republican. Given the administration's broad, hyper-speed attempts to cut federal spending and shutter agencies, which critics allege overstep executive authority, the high court may also be a rare roadblock against the Trump agenda, given that Republicans control both houses of Congress. The day after Trump's much-discussed handshake with Roberts, the Supreme Court ruled that the administration must pay out nearly $2 billion in foreign aid to groups that work with the U.S. Agency for International Development, despite the White House's attempt to freeze funding and shutter the agency. Trump has a long history of criticizing the media, and his frequent attacks on the 'fake news' beginning in his 2016 campaign helped the term enter the popular lexicon. Over time, the criticism has taken on a more barbed, violent edge, with Trump calling mainstream news channels the 'true enemy of the people.' Some of this rhetoric has been strategic, Trump reportedly admitted. ''You know why I do it?'' 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl recalled Trump once telling her in 2016. ''I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so that when you write negative stories about me no one will believe you.'' The Republican's relationship with one news channel in particular, Fox News, has been a defining feature of his political life. The network helped fuel Trump's political rise, and the Republican has staffed both of his administrations with numerous figures from the network. The current White House includes former Fox anchors and commentators as director of national intelligence and the secretaries of defense and transit. During his first term, Trump was reported to have watched Fox for hours on end, sometimes live-tweeting his thoughts about various segments on favorite shows like Fox and Friends. The relationship grew more fraught by 2020, when Fox News angered MAGAworld by accurately calling the Arizona presidential election results as a win for Joe Biden, despite reported attempts from Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner to lobby network leaders to revoke the call. Fox's alignment with Trump proved problematic for the network in other ways, too, including having to pay $785 million to elections contractor Dominion Voting Systems to settle a defamation suit, stemming from repeated reporting agreeing with the Trump campaign's false claims of a rigged 2020 election. The relationship got so tense that in 2023, network star Sean Hannity reportedly tried to appeal to Trump directly to stop attacking Fox and its owners, the Murdoch family, after Trump accused the network of 'collusion' to boost the political fortunes of his GOP primary rival, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. 'Mr. President, I'm trying to help you out here with the Fox people here,' Hannity reportedly told Trump, according to Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump's Return to Power, a forthcoming book from Axios journalist Alex Isenstadt. 'But you're not making it easy for me by going after the Murdochs. You're not helping me. You're not helping yourself. If you can just lay off, we can start making some moves and getting back to normal.' The attacks on the press have continued now that Trump is back in office, including blocking Associated Press reporters from covering official appearances because the wire service's influential style handbook has not adopted the administration's unilateral attempt to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. The administration, frustrated with the pace of deportations, has also cracked down on leakers speaking to the media about impending removal operations against migrants.
The Independent
06-03-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
Trump swears he doesn't follow ‘fake news' – then goes on rant about CNN, MSNBC and ‘sleazebag journalists'
Donald Trump attacked the media on Wednesday in a Truth Social post, criticizing recent coverage of a clip of him that seized on an interaction where he thanked Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and shook his hand during the president's joint address to Congress earlier this week. 'Like most people, I don't watch Fake News CNN or MSDNC, but I understand they are going 'crazy' asking what is it that I was thanking Justice Roberts for?' Trump wrote, using his pejorative nickname for MSNBC. 'They never called my office to ask, of course, but if they had I would have told these sleazebag 'journalists' that I thanked him for SWEARING ME IN ON INAUGURATION DAY, AND DOING A REALLY GOOD JOB IN SO DOING! The Fake News never quits!' The moment at issue was relatively brief. As Trump mingled with the crowd of dignitaries in the House who gathered Tuesday to watch the address, the president shook Roberts's hand and was recorded saying, 'Thank you again. [I] won't forget it.' Some argued the exchange was emblematic of how the Supreme Court has enabled Trump in recent years. 'We can't know precisely what the president meant, but Trump does have a lot to thank Roberts for,' Adam Serwer writes in The Atlantic. The Supreme Court delivered Trump multiple election-year victories, including a March 2024 decision blocking Colorado's move to strike Donald Trump from its presidential election ballot for his role in January 6, and a July ruling finding that former presidents have broad immunity from criminal prosecution for official actions, effectively ending a federal case against the Republican. Given the administration's broad, hyper-speed attempts to cut federal spending and shutter agencies, which critics allege overstep executive authority, the high court may also be a rare roadblock against the Trump agenda, given that Republicans control both houses of Congress. The day after Trump's much-discussed handshake with Roberts, the Supreme Court ruled that the administration must pay out nearly $2 billion in foreign aid to groups that work with the U.S. Agency for International Development, despite the White House's attempt to freeze funding and shutter the agency. Trump has a long history of criticizing the media, and his frequent attacks on the 'fake news' beginning in his 2016 campaign helped the term enter the popular lexicon. Over time, the criticism has taken on a more barbed, violent edge, with Trump calling mainstream news channels the ' true enemy of the people.' Some of this rhetoric has been strategic, Trump reportedly admitted. ''You know why I do it?'' 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl recalled Trump once telling her in 2016. ''I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so that when you write negative stories about me no one will believe you.'' The Republican's relationship with one news channel in particular, Fox News, has been a defining feature of his political life. The network helped fuel Trump's political rise, and the Republican has staffed both of his administrations with numerous figures from the network. The current White House includes former Fox anchors and commentators as director of national intelligence and the secretaries of defense and transit. During his first term, Trump was reported to have watched Fox for hours on end, sometimes live-tweeting his thoughts about various segments on favorite shows like Fox and Friends. The relationship grew more fraught by 2020, when Fox News angered MAGAworld by accurately calling the Arizona presidential election results as a win for Joe Biden, despite reported attempts from Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner to lobby network leaders to revoke the call. Fox's alignment with Trump proved problematic for the network in other ways, too, including having to pay $785 million to elections contractor Dominion Voting Systems to settle a defamation suit, stemming from repeated reporting agreeing with the Trump campaign's false claims of a rigged 2020 election. The relationship got so tense that in 2023, network star Sean Hannity reportedly tried to appeal to Trump directly to stop attacking Fox and its owners, the Murdoch family, after Trump accused the network of 'collusion' to boost the political fortunes of his GOP primary rival, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. 'Mr. President, I'm trying to help you out here with the Fox people here,' Hannity reportedly told Trump, according to Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump's Return to Power, a forthcoming book from Axios journalist Alex Isenstadt. 'But you're not making it easy for me by going after the Murdochs. You're not helping me. You're not helping yourself. If you can just lay off, we can start making some moves and getting back to normal.' The attacks on the press have continued now that Trump is back in office, including blocking Associated Press reporters from covering official appearances because the wire service's influential style handbook has not adopted the administration's unilateral attempt to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. The administration, frustrated with the pace of deportations, has also cracked down on leakers speaking to the media about impending removal operations against migrants.
