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President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegeth railed against the "fake news" media during a NATO acme property league for casting uncertainty that the U.S. strikes connected Iran obliterated the country's atomic program.
"A connection came successful from the Atomic Energy Commission of Israel," Trump said during a Wednesday property league from The Hague arsenic helium wrapped up his NATO acme travel successful the Netherlands. "They're precise superior people, arsenic you know."
"'The devastating U.S. onslaught connected Fordow destroyed the site's captious infrastructure and rendered the enrichment installation wholly inoperable,'" Trump work from the letter. "'It was devastated. We assessed that the American strikes connected Iran's atomic facilities had acceptable backmost Iran's quality to make atomic weapons for galore years to come. This accomplishment tin proceed indefinitely if Iran does not get entree to atomic material.'"
Trump took purpose astatine U.S. media outlets for initially casting uncertainty that the strikes helium ordered connected Iran Saturday evening were not arsenic devastating arsenic the medication initially reported, calling outlets specified arsenic CNN "fake news" and slamming them for "maligning" the U.S. subject by doubting the ferocity of the strikes.
TRUMP THRASHES CNN AS ‘GUTLESS LOSERS’ FOR COVERAGE OF US STRIKES ON IRAN
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (R) listens arsenic US President Donald Trump addresses a property league during a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Heads of State and Government acme successful The Hague connected June 25, 2025. (Nicolas Tucat/AFP via Getty Images)
"I conscionable privation to convey our pilots," Trump said. "You know, they were maligned and treated precise bad, demeaned by fake quality CNN, which is backmost there, judge it oregon not, wasting time, wasting time. Nobody's watching them. So they conscionable wasted a batch of time. wasting my time. And the New York Times, they enactment retired a communicative that, 'well, possibly they were hit, but it wasn't truthful atrocious that they ended the war.'"
The president added that helium received a telephone that the pilots who deployed from Missouri to Iran for the strikes were "devastated" owed to definite media outlets attempting to downplay the occurrence of the mission.
"Do you know, I got a telephone from Missouri? Great authorities that I won 3 times by a lot. And I got a telephone that the pilots and radical connected the level were devastated due to the fact that (the media) were trying to minimize the attack. And they each said it was hit, ’but oh, but we don't deliberation it was truly possibly deed that badly.' And they were devastated," helium said.
"They enactment their lives connected the enactment and past they have, and I'm not referring to you, but existent scum. Real scum travel retired and constitute reports that are arsenic antagonistic arsenic they could perchance be," Trump continued.
TRUMP ADDRESSES NATION ON 'SPECTACULAR MILITARY SUCCESS' OF US STRIKES ON IRANIAN NUCLEAR FACILITIES
A representation shows harm to Iran's Fordow atomic tract aft being struck by the United States successful Operation Midnight Hammer. (Fox News)
Hegseth, who joined Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio astatine the summit, besides slammed CNN and the New York Times during the property conference. Hegseth argued that specified media outlets enactment "to find a mode to spin" the news.
"There's a crushed the president calls retired fake quality for what it is. These pilots, these refuelers, these fighters, these aerial defenders. The accomplishment and the courageousness it took to spell into force territory flying 36 hours connected behalf of the American radical and the satellite to instrumentality retired a atomic programme is beyond what anyone successful this assemblage tin fathom," Hegseth said.
"And past the instinct, the instinct of CNN, the instinct of the New York Times, is to effort to find a mode to rotation it for their ain governmental reasons, to effort to wounded President Trump oregon our country. They don't attraction what the troops think. They don't attraction what the satellite thinks. They privation to rotation it to effort to marque him look atrocious based connected a leak. Of course, we've each seen plentifulness of leakers and what a leakers do? They person agendas. And what bash they do? Do they stock the full accusation oregon conscionable the portion that they privation to introduce?"
Trump announced Saturday evening successful a astonishment Truth Social station that the U.S. subject had successfully executed strikes connected 3 Iranian atomic facilities, saying successful an code to the federation aboriginal that nighttime that the facilities were "completely and wholly obliterated."
US Vice President JD Vance, from left, US President Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, US caput of state, and Pete Hegseth, US caput of defense, during an code to the federation successful the East Room of the White House successful Washington, DC, US, connected Saturday, June 21, 2025. (Carlos Barria/Reuters/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
"For 40 years, Iran has been saying, ‘Death to America. Death to Israel.’ They person been sidesplitting our people, blowing disconnected their arms, blowing disconnected their legs with roadside bombs," Trump said successful his code Saturday with the trio lasting down him. "That was their specialty. We mislaid implicit a 1000 people, and hundreds of thousands passim the Middle East and astir the satellite person died arsenic a nonstop effect of their hate, successful particular."
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"Iran's atomic enrichment facilities person been wholly and wholly obliterated," Trump said. "And Iran, the bully of the Middle East, indispensable present marque peace. If they bash not, aboriginal attacks would beryllium acold greater and a batch easier."
President Donald Trump, right, speaks with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte during a radical photograph of NATO heads of authorities and authorities astatine the NATO acme successful The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
A fistful of bequest and wide media outlets attempted to formed uncertainty that the strikes genuinely devastated the Iranian facilities, including CNN publishing an exclusive Tuesday claiming "US strikes connected Iran did not destroy atomic sites," portion the New York Times reported the Fordow atomic installation was "severely damaged" but not "destroyed."
White House officials, including Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, person slammed specified reports arsenic "fake news."
President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte be a plenary league astatine the NATO acme successful The Hague, Netherlands, om June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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"This alleged ‘assessment’ is flat-out incorrect and was classified arsenic "top secret" but was inactive leaked to CNN by an anonymous, low-level loser successful the quality community," Leavitt posted to X connected Tuesday of the CNN report. "The leaking of this alleged appraisal is simply a wide effort to demean President Trump, and discredit the brave combatant pilots who conducted a perfectly executed ngo to obliterate Iran’s atomic program. Everyone knows what happens erstwhile you driblet fourteen 30,000 lb bombs perfectly connected their targets: full obliteration."
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