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Trump Humiliates CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Live TV — Shreds “Fake News” Question on Iran Strike
Gateway Pundit ^ | June 25, 2025 | Jim Hᴏft

Posted on 06/25/2025 11:03:16 AM PDT by Red Badger

President Donald Trump publicly humiliated CNN’s Kaitlan Collins during a live press event at the NATO summit in The Hague.

Collins, representing the deeply discredited network that Trump has long labeled “fake news,” asked a loaded question about Trump’s recent strike on Iranian nuclear facilities — and she got more than she bargained for.

“Go ahead. Oh, fake news CNN? Ayayai, here we go,” Trump began, gesturing at Collins. “Wait ’til you hear this question. You should REALLY say how great our soldiers and warriors are.”

The question, predictably slanted:

COLLINS: “Are you relying on Israeli intelligence for your assessment of the impact of the strikes?”

That’s when Trump lowered the boom:

“No. Also Iran made the statement. Also, if you read the document that was given [to CNN], it said it could be very severe damage, but they didn’t take that. They said it COULD be limited or it COULD be very severe.”

“They really didn’t know other than to say it could be limited or it could be very, very severe. And YOU didn’t choose to put that. Since then, we’ve collected additional intelligence.”

“We’ve also spoken to people who have seen the site and the site is OBLITERATED, and we think everything nuclear is down there. They didn’t [remove] it.”

WATCH:

VIDEO AT LINK.....................

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, CNN ran with a conveniently leaked “Top Secret” intelligence assessment suggesting the U.S. strike on Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility only set the program back a few months — a claim repeated by the Associated Press and The New York Times. Their goal? Downplay Trump’s decisive and strategic military strike.

But today, that phony narrative crumbled.

The Trump White House released a bombshell statement from the Israel Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) completely dismantling the CNN fantasy. According to the IAEC:

“The devastating US strike on Fordo destroyed the site’s critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable. We assess that the American strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, combined with Israeli strikes on other elements of Iran’s military nuclear program, has set back Iran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons by many years.”

Reading directly from the IAEC’s assessment, Trump took a torch to the legacy media:

“Our pilots were demeaned by Fake News CNN, which is back there…Wasting time because nobody’s watching them,” Trump said to roaring laughter. “And The New York Times, they put out a story that said, ‘Maybe they were hit, but it wasn’t so bad.’ Well, it was so bad that it ended the war.”

On Tuesday night, President Trump also went off on fake news outlets CNN and New York Times after a dubious ‘top secret’ intel assessment about the US’s strikes on Iranian nuclear sites leaked to the media.

“FAKE NEWS CNN, TOGETHER WITH THE FAILING NEW YORK TIMES, HAVE TEAMED UP IN AN ATTEMPT TO DEMEAN ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL MILITARY STRIKES IN HISTORY. THE NUCLEAR SITES IN IRAN ARE COMPLETELY DESTROYED! BOTH THE TIMES AND CNN ARE GETTING SLAMMED BY THE PUBLIC!”


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To: Red Badger

Just heard the Trump is going to limit classified info going to Congress. Sounds like they found out who leaked to media.


21 posted on 06/25/2025 11:39:44 AM PDT by mware
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To: Red Badger

Seen the press event when Trump pointed to Kaitlan Collins she was like a rabid dog going after the mic to CNN NYT MSNBC and other propaganda agents the Iran hit never happened with their bogus so call reporting.

The enemies within in action.


22 posted on 06/25/2025 11:42:25 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Texas Eagle

> Except for that one Conservative guy.

Scott Jennings(?)


23 posted on 06/25/2025 11:42:44 AM PDT by SteveH
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To: SteveH

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That’s the guy. I knew his name would come to me.


24 posted on 06/25/2025 11:47:11 AM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: Mariner

Fact checking works both ways. CNN should try fact-checking some of their own stories before being humiliated on public. I think there was a time when news editors and reporters were expected to do that.


25 posted on 06/25/2025 11:58:41 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: Red Badger

She is undeterred. She will be back with more questions Fed to her by Jim Acosta, day after day.


26 posted on 06/25/2025 12:02:32 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: Red Badger
If Trump were a Democrat and liberal he could:

Fall over repeatedly and up the stairs, blank stare for extended times into the camera, forget the names of his staff, get lost at the White House, need guided from the stage, shake hands with ghosts, cut farts before British Royals doing the leg lift, shit his pants at the Vatican, and mumble incoherently on many occasions...

And CNN will run with stories like this defending him in between mentioning repeatedly how he's “sharp as a tack”: https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/13/media/news-outlets-robert-hur-biden-mental-state

It's real simple to understand: the MSM is owned by people that are Democrats, 5 of 6 of the major media conglomerates. Most journalists, ~85% vote Democrat. Social media is largely monopolistic and folks like Zuckerberg are HUGE Democrats. The MSM, social media and Hollywood are no more than an extension of the Democrat party as far as the values they attempt to sell and political candidates they champion. They will defend a liberal candidate, a Democrat, while attacking a Republican and conservative.

If a Democrat starts a war in Ukraine, they won't question if it was necessary, avoidable, predictable. No, they will use emotional terms not supported by any facts like “unprovoked attack” and “war of aggression.” They will take every White House statement and print it as the truth without questioning it, may it be bogus casualty reports, stories about some Ghost of Kiev, the battle for Snake Island, or the glorious counter offensive of 2023. The names and faces of American volunteers killed and crippled in Ukraine doesn't get reported on much...Everything is positive.

If a Republican starts and ends a military campaign in a single night, settles an Israel-Iran conflict, has 0 US casualties, spends less than 1/1000 of what a war in Ukraine costs that a Democrat started, this same media will question every aspect of this campaign. They will question if it was successful, they will ask how others perceive us (not an issue when Biden started a war), they will question Trumps motives, ask if he was duped by the Israeli's into getting involved... God help us if one Airman involved wants to make some claim (anything really) which puts a negative light on this Iran strike, our MSM will run with it IMMEDIATELY...Everything becomes negative.

Trump is an educated and experienced man, I speculate in his private life far more moral than he gets credit for, he's a complex thinker (abstract), quick (picks up on things real fast, switches between thoughts quickly) yet uses foul language, crude labels, makes locker room style jokes...

Trump is the college educated, highly successful business man that likes to watch people pummel each other in the face: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4st9LQZE-MY

IMHO, Trump is the modern day Teddy Roosevelt. A smart guy, but a rough man that is straight to the point.

Teddy also was hated by the media which hated him, which he labeled as “yellow journalism:” https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Blog/Item/Theodore%20Roosevelt%20and%20%22Fake%20News%22

Speeches like Man in the Arena exemplify the same sort of conflict/situation back then as what you have today: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.etsystatic.com%2F10857225%2Fr%2Fil%2F420868%2F882768404%2Fil_fullxfull.882768404_st9t.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=b07d0f48d3151e8e5d95e55375607622789f3f1af4b2b6383952ba0d46b68927

Trump will —NEVER— be able to do right. He can have a success like in Iran which is off the charts, and they will STILL try to find some aspect where they criticize.

The (1) MSM, (2) social media and (3) Hollywood simply dislike him because he belongs to the wrong party and holds onto a conservative world view which they mostly despise.

This isn't going to change.

You can only hope that enough people out there are able to think and see the obvious double standard as well as make up their own mind on these issues which the MSM, social media, and Hollywood will distort against Trump.

27 posted on 06/25/2025 12:05:22 PM PDT by Red6
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To: jjotto

There is an ongoing trolling on Twitter/X about Collins being mistaken for Scott Pressler. If you look at photos of both, it’s easy to see why. Scott Pressler himself has taken part in the trolling about her being him.


28 posted on 06/25/2025 12:06:02 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: Red Badger

keyword

inoperable

sit your ass down

lying dying leftist legacy media


29 posted on 06/25/2025 12:13:53 PM PDT by joshua c
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To: Savage Beast

warner is spinning it off


30 posted on 06/25/2025 12:14:54 PM PDT by joshua c
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To: Red6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29E6GbYdB1c


31 posted on 06/25/2025 12:16:15 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: SteveH

and the pollster

harry


32 posted on 06/25/2025 12:18:05 PM PDT by joshua c
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To: Red Badger
Have you seen a side profile of her? CROOKED Nose....

Trump should have said, "Oh, lookie here, straight from Crooked CNN, the crooked reporter, with a huge crooked nose...go ahead, SIR" (cause she looka like a man).

33 posted on 06/25/2025 12:19:44 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (Inter arma enim silent leges! - Cicero )
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Thanks for tip😂


34 posted on 06/25/2025 12:20:56 PM PDT by jjotto ("...saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau...")
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To: Red Badger

Compare ~30% down of this:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-22/inside-iran-fordow-nuclear-bunker-bombed-by-us/105446636

to ~80% down of this:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-868e3c3d-25ec-43cb-bcc0-8832464b91ca

The US dropped the bunker busters to strike offset from and below the ridgelines, so the explosions were probably at about the right level and off to the side, which would likely make the centrifuges the Iranians still had at Fordow inoperable since they would wobble way too much.


35 posted on 06/25/2025 12:27:37 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Red Badger

“And by the way, Kaitlan, who leaked the highly classified documents to you?”


36 posted on 06/25/2025 12:36:30 PM PDT by dynachrome (Auslander Raus!)
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To: jjotto

Are they ever seen in the same place together?


37 posted on 06/25/2025 1:03:57 PM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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To: Red Badger

I think he likes her. She’s a regular foil.


38 posted on 06/25/2025 4:01:04 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: Red Badger

She’s trying to replace Jim Acosta, apparently.


39 posted on 06/25/2025 4:13:42 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Think about it: The Supreme Court is nine lawyers appointed for life by politicians. —David Horowitz)
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To: Democrat = party of treason

Bkmk “she”


40 posted on 06/25/2025 4:13:46 PM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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