Trump closes NBC news reporter: ‘I think you’re so discredited’

President Trump refused to get a question from a NBC News reporter, clashing the broadcast network as “discredited”.

The president answered questions from a number of journalists during a visit to Kennedy Center on Monday – but stopped at least when a reporter was asked with a question.

After Trump asked the reporter to identify their print plug, they replied, “Sir, I’m with the NBC news.”

“I don’t want to talk to NBC anymore,” Trump said with a wave of hand. “I think you’re so discredited.”

NBC News did not respond immediately to the post of commentary request.

Trump’s bad blood with Comcast, who owns NBC News and Msnbc, goes back over the years.

In 2023, during his presidential campaign, he threatened to sue Comcast after he was again at the White House over the NBC News’ and the alleged coverage of his unfair MSNBC.

His attacks on the left sister channel have only grown, last month calling MSNBC a “threat to our democracy” and asking first if the exit should “have the right to broadcast”.

During his conversation with reporters on Monday, the president, who recently crowned himself, head of the Kennedy Storied Center, said he plans to issue 80,000 pages of JFK files on Tuesday.

“People have been waiting for decades for this,” Trump told the release of Kennedy newspapers. “They have an extraordinary amount of paper.

Trump’s refusal to talk to NBC news reporter is just his latest spat with press members.

On Monday, he signed an executive order that guts the Federal Agency that oversees Voice of America – effectively closing news releases that have been broadcasting news for more than 80 years in places where independent reporting has been censored.

In a press release, the White House accused the American stations’ voice of “a left -wing bias linked to the national partisan media”.

Last month, after the Associated Press continued to use the term “Gulf of Mexico” – ignoring Trump’s proclamation to rename it “Gulf of America” ​​- officials banned their reporters from the White House conference room and kept them from the Air Force Dormitory.

The wire service responded with a lawsuit accusing senior White House officials of violating the first and fifth changes.

Members of his administration and Trump’s close allies have also called on the White House to “destroy” public broadcasting networks such as NPR and PBS.

In January, FCC President Brendan Carr launched an investigation into both networks on their alleged use of “forbidden trade advertising”, for which he argued that it could be sufficient reason to mitigate their federal funds.

Elon Musk, the billionaire standing behind the working group to reduce the White House costs, has also threatened to “destroy” the public station, arguing “must survive itself”.

NPR has reported to receive about 1% of its funds from federal sources each year, and that PBS receives 16% of its government funds.

In the face of threats, PBS public broadcaster last month closed his diversity office and fired two employees, citing the need to meet Trump’s order as the network relies on federal funds.