Trump cuts off interview with Welker: ‘I’ve had enough’

Let's call it quits because I've had enough," Trump said before getting up and leaving.

Donald Trump abruptly ended a sit-down interview with Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker on Sunday, ripping off his microphone and walking out after she challenged his repeated claims of a rigged 2020 election.

” You’re either crooked or you’re stupid… You’re crooked, and Meet the Press is crooked, and so is ABC, CBS, and CNN. Sorry. Let’s call it quits because I’ve had enough,” Trump said before getting up and leaving.

The interview, airing on NBC, turned confrontational when Welker asked Trump about his idea to use $1.8 billion in taxpayer money for a “weaponization fund” to compensate people who believe they were unfairly targeted by a federal government “weaponizing” the justice system against them.

Trump lashes out at NBC News’s Kristen Welker and abruptly leaves the interview.

Trump tells her:

You’re either crooked or you’re stupid… You’re crooked, and Meet the Press is crooked, and so is ABC, CBS, and CNN.pic.twitter.com/rynIipTzKG

— Clash Report (@clashreport) June 7, 2026

Donald Trump said that if the decision were entirely his, he would compensate those affected with the amount he believes they deserve. He argued that many people’s lives had been ruined and claimed that some had even died by suicide after being targeted by what he described as a group of “thug