Posted on 07/21/2026 9:43:12 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
President Donald Trump went off on ABC News White House correspondent Mary Bruce during a Tuesday press conference in the Oval Office after she asked him about the Iran war, with the president saying she didn’t know “anything” about the conflict.
“Mr. President, there are no signs that Iran is ready to stop fighting, so what is the plan? Is the plan to just keep fighting until they give up?” Bruce asked.
The president was agitated by the question and bashed her for it.
“How would you know there are no signs? Why, do you know something that I don’t know?” he shot back.
‘Well, they continue to attack our allies and kill Americans—” Bruce started to respond, before Trump cut her off.
“You don’t know what the dialogue is behind the scenes. They want to meet desperately to try and end it, because they’re getting decimated. You don’t get that when you’re listening to your fake station, but you don’t know anything.”
Bruce started to ask if talks were ongoing, as Trump continued peppering her with questions.
“You know something I don’t know? Do you know something I don’t know?” he said.
“Well tell us,” Bruce said.
“I will tell you they want to desperately meet, and until they are ready to meet in a meaningful way, we have no interest,” Trump answered.
The president previously branded Bruce a “terrible person” last year when she asked him questions about Jeffrey Epstein and his family’s business deals in Saudi Arabia.
Their feisty exchange on Tuesday followed an Iranian attack on a military base in Jordan that killed two American soldiers last weekend. The U.S. has responded with more military strikes, which reached 10 consecutive days on Monday.
“They did slip something through,” Trump said about the Jordan attack a bit later in the Tuesday press conference.
He reiterated his administration’s goal is for Iran to never obtain a nuclear weapon.
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I saw it. Trump did well.
True. But Trump is right. Journalist woman isn’t privvy to inside conversations and Trump is not going to relay them. But. Ya. This is a mess.
I’d like to know too.
Trump's a New Yorker. He thinks being loud and rude is winning. He thinks yelling at a reporter will distract people from the flag draped coffins his policy is creating.
He's wrong.
When the last Iranian guard is dead.
If Obama were President, they’d fawningly ask him his favorite color. And praise him for his patience and his ability to limit civilian casualties. I don’t know who’s paying the major media to carry the water of our enemies and and Dems, but someone definitely is. I bet all the media talking heads have million dollar homes and are members at swanky clubs.
Israel and the Mossad “forgot” (/s) to tell Trump that “weakened” Iran and its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have many friends——and would be supplied with military hardware, precursor chemicals, and logistical support by an international network involving state actors and foreign front companies, particularly from China, Russia, and localized proxies.
Intelligence indicates Chinese entities supply the IRGC with precursor chemicals (such as sodium perchlorate) for ballistic missile fuel and dual-use components for drone manufacturing.
Russia and Iran operate a self-reinforcing exchange, where Russia supplies military hardware, aviation parts, and technological support in return for Iranian-made drones.
The US Treasury’s “Office of Foreign Assets Control” tracks and sanctions foreign aviation, transport, and front companies operating out of jurisdictions like Hong Kong, Italy, and Nigeria that act as intermediaries to obscure IRGC procurement.
It diverts massive domestic resources like food and oil revenues directly to the IRGC to sustain their fighting forces and domestic operations. In conflict zones like Syria, the IRGC sustains its logistical footprint and fighters through regional corridors managed by allied militias and covert transport firms.
An Iranian-born woman doctor was on Newsmax last night and she adamantly stated that negotiation is considered a sign of weakness and is only used by the IRGC as a delaying tactic. The only thing they understand is force. The more overwhelming, the quicker they learn.
Obama hasn’t been president for a decade.
I don’t give a damn about the media, the mainstream media, the MAGA-aligned media, or the random podcasters.
It has been months upon months since our Administration first (and then repeatedly) declared victory.
THIS IS NOT WHAT VICTORY LOOKS LIKE.
Americans are owed straight answers as to what our endgame is with Iran.
I don’t know who that doctor is and I didn’t see that interview, but what have Hegseth, Pulte, and Ratcliff been advising?
We’re sleepwalking through an interminable stalemate.
He should have said, well, we will just give up then...... see how she reacted.
how is he wrong?
I don’t think it is realistic for the administration to be held to endless questions about “when will it end?”, and then the Sunday talk shows come on and call everyone liars and suggest that there is no plan or strategy in place. I do not believe the administration owes every American or MSM or even some in Congress full disclosure info of everything they know and plan.
I would have told her to go make me a sandwich and be quick about it. I love President Trump basically telling these fools to piss off and making them look the part of a communist agitator that they are...F all mainstream media....
Networks hate Trump. Hate him with the passion of 10,000 burning suns.
Where did you get that information?
The mission will be complete when the USA attacks the civilians directly: The water supply, the electrical outlets, the transportation infrastructure, and the cities, especially Tehran and Qom.”
What’s your plan for the islamic terrorists?
Lay back?
Judging from you activity here…I’ll trust President Trump way
before I would trust you.
Their leader is dead.
We fly over their skies at will and bomb whatever we want.
Their nuke program is in shambles.
That does not sound like a stalemate to me….
It sounds like huge progress against islamist terrorists,
whose greatest goal in life is martydom.
You sound like ‘something’ that has a terminal case of
pmstds.
State your source?
Stunning that an ANTI-ISRAEL, JEW HATER is privy to Mossad intel?
They are the World’s worst terrorist….your LOW IQ answer is what?
I don’t think you have an answer.
I think you would revel in a nuke going off in Tel Aviv, even if it brought
on a world-wide economic catastrophe.
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