Donald Trump flipped out at a journalist for The Wall Street Journal onboard Air Force One on Sunday.
The journalist drew Trump’s ire after asking about talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin amid the U.S. president’s effort to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine over the former’s invasion of the latter.
Trump asked which outlet the reporter worked for, a tactic he’s resorted to frequently during his second term.
When told the Journal, he then railed: “That’s what I thought. Boy, you people treat us so badly. Wall Street Journal has truly gone to hell. Go ahead, yeah. Rotten newspaper. You hear me? What I said? It’s a rotten newspaper.”
Trump then told the journalist to “go ahead” with the question but refused to answer. “I wouldn’t tell The Wall Street Journal because it’d be wasting my time. There are talks, but I don’t want to talk to The Wall Street Journal. Look, Wall Street Journal is China-oriented and they’re really bad for this country.”
Trump turned to take a question from another journalist.
It’s the latest flashpoint between Trump and the Rupert Murdoch-owned publication, which despite its conservative leaning has in recent months flamed Trump on multiple occasions — most notably over his trade policies and market-spooking tariffs, which it dubbed “The Dumbest Trade War In History.”
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