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:
BREAKING: President Trump just CLOWNED CNN’s Kaitlan Collins. He never misses.
TRUMP: “Go ahead. Oh, fake news CNN? Ayayai, here we go. Wait ’til you hear this question. You should REALLY say how great our soldiers and warriors are.”
COLLINS: “Are you relying on Israeli… pic.twitter.com/Jv3p86n2Hz
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 25, 2025
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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