President Donald Trump lashed out at the press Wednesday morning over its coverage of his upcoming meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing journalists of being “sick and dishonest people who probably hate our country.”
In addition, Trump took aim at an old nemesis – his former short-lived national security adviser John Bolton – over a comment Bolton made regarding the president’s upcoming meeting in Alaska with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Very unfair media is at work on my meeting with Putin. Constantly quoting fired losers and really dumb people like John Bolton, who just said that, even though the meeting is on American soil, ‘Putin has already won.’ What’s that all about? We are winning on EVERYTHING,” wrote Trump on Truth Social. “The Fake News is working overtime (No tax on overtime!). If I got Moscow and Leningrad free, as part of the deal with Russia, the Fake News would say that I made a bad deal! But now they’ve been caught.”
“Look at all of the real news that’s coming out about their CORRUPTION,” he concluded. “They are sick and dishonest people, who probably hate our Country. But it doesn’t matter because we are winning on everything!!! MAGA.”
Bolton claimed that Trump meeting with Putin, which is related to the president’s ongoing push to end the war between Russia and Ukraine, as somehow giving Putin a victory.
“Putin has already won. He is the leader of a rogue state, and he’ll get a picture on U.S. soil with the president of the United States,” Bolton told The Atlantic‘s Jonathan Lemire. “Trump wants a deal. And if he can’t get one now, he may walk away from it entirely.”
“Putin kept pushing Trump and eventually went further than Trump was willing to be pushed. He got mad, so Putin gave him this summit. Now he wants to work his KGB magic on Trump and get him back in line,” he added.