Top Trump Goon Melts Down at CNN Host Who Was Mean About His War Rant
April 2, 2026
The Daily Beast
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Drew Angerer/AFP via Getty ImagesDonald Trump’s top mouthpiece, Steven Cheung, has thrown a tantrum at a CNN host who dared to question the president’s war in Iran. Abby Phillip and the NewsNight panel were reacting to Trump’s freewheeling address to the nation on Wednesday evening, in which the 79-year-old president said the “core objectives” of his campaign against Iran were “nearing completion.”Phillip poured scorn on the president from the top of the show.
In her opening remarks, she said: “If you were looking for some new insights from the president about how this war is going, where it‘s headed, how exactly it might end, I‘m not sure that you got it today. The president basically repeated a lot of the things that he‘s been saying in Truth Social posts, except he said it out loud.”Read more at The Daily Beast.
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