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U.S. President Donald Trump denounced ABC News’ Mary Bruce arsenic a “terrible reporter” connected Tuesday (November 19, 2025) and threatened the network’s licence to broadcast aft she asked him 3 crisp questions astatine the White House.
The network’s main White House analogous was among reporters fto into the Oval Office to question the President and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. She asked Mr. Trump whether it was due for his household to beryllium doing concern successful Saudi Arabia portion helium was President.
Before helium could answer, she directed a question to the Saudi leader: “Your Royal Highness, the U.S. quality concluded that you orchestrated the brutal execution of a journalist. 9/11 families are furious that you are present successful the Oval Office. Why should Americans spot you? And the aforesaid to you, Mr. President.”
After asking Ms. Bruce who she worked for, Mr. Trump called ABC “fake news” and defended his family’s concern operations successful Saudi Arabia.
The President dismissed the U.S. quality findings that the Prince apt had immoderate culpability successful the 2018 sidesplitting of Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi, a professional of the Saudi kingdom. He said “a batch of radical didn’t like” Khashoggi, a Saudi national and a Virginia resident.
For his part, Prince Mohammed said Khashoggi’s decease was achy and “a immense mistake.”
Mr. Trump aboriginal criticised Ms. Bruce for asking the Prince a “horrible, insubordinate and conscionable a unspeakable question.” He laced into her aft a 3rd query, astir wherefore the White House is waiting for legislature enactment to merchandise much details astir enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein’s correspondence. “Why not conscionable bash it now?” Ms. Bruce asked.
“It’s not the question that I mind,” Mr. Trump said. “It’s your attitude. I deliberation you are a unspeakable reporter. It’s the mode you inquire these questions.”
After addressing the Epstein question, helium returned to Ms. Bruce, saying that “people are omniscient to your hoax.”
“I deliberation the licence should beryllium taken distant from ABC due to the fact that your quality is truthful fake and it’s truthful wrong,” helium said. “And we person a large (FCC) commissioner, the chairman, who should look astatine that due to the fact that I deliberation erstwhile you travel successful and you’re 97% antagonistic to Trump. And past Trump wins the predetermination successful a landslide. That means, obviously, your quality is not credible. And you’re not credible arsenic a reporter.”
ABC News had nary remark connected Tuesday (November 18, 2025) connected Mr. Trump’s statements, which referred to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, who leads the national bureau liable for licensing section broadcast stations.
Meanwhile, Bloomberg News issued a remark connected Mr. Trump referring to 1 of its reporters, Catherine Lucey, arsenic “piggy” during a question-and-answer league past Friday (November 14, 2025) connected Air Force One.
“Our White House journalists execute a captious nationalist service, asking questions without fearfulness oregon favor,” Bloomberg News said. “We stay focused connected reporting issues of nationalist involvement reasonably and accurately.”
