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President Trump blasted a reporter who appeared to work for Bloomberg News for interrupting him while answering questions from a press gaggle – telling the journalist, “You are the worst.”
On Sunday night, Trump was in the middle of answering a question about Tucker Carlson’s controversial interview with white supremacist Nick Fuentes when a journalist cut in with another query.
The president paused, briefly glanced upward and then turned to the reporter with an irritated look on his face.
“Will you let me finish my statement? You are the worst. You’re with Bloomberg, right?” Trump said before boarding Air Force One.
“You are the worst, I don’t know why they even have you,” he added.
The identity of the reporter was not immediately clear. Bloomberg did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
In a tweet, CBS News’ White House reporter Jennifer Jacobs noted another recent faceoff that took place aboard Air Force One.
She wrote that Trump on Friday told a Bloomberg reporter, “Quiet, quiet, piggy” after the journalist asked “why, if there’s nothing incriminating in the files, he’s acting like there is,” in Jacobs’ words.
Highlights from NEWSY gaggle on AF1 on our flight to Florida on Friday night:
Trump told us on EPSTEIN:
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After he was interrupted on Sunday, Trump resumed his answer on Carlson’s interview with Fuentes.
“We’ve had some great interviews with Tucker Carlson, but you can’t tell him who to interview,” Trump said.
“If he wants to interview Nick Fuentes, I don’t know much about him, but if he wants to do it, get the word out. You know, people have to decide, ultimately people have to decide.”
Carlson, a former Fox News anchor who now hosts his own podcast, has faced backlash after his interview a few weeks ago with Fuentes – a Holocaust denier and white supremacist who has repeatedly used the N-word.
Trump was also asked about having dinner with Fuentes at his Mar-a-Lago residence in 2022.
The president said Fuentes was a guest of Kanye West’s, so he had no idea the controversial figure was coming ahead of time.
“I didn’t know Nick at the time …he came along with a few other people. [West] brought a few people with him. Meeting people, talking to people, for somebody like Tucker, that’s what they do,” Trump said. “You know, people are controversial.”
He later joked: “Some are, some aren’t. I’m not controversial.”
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