President Donald Trump blasted CNN during his Thursday afternoon Oval Office briefing while fielding a question about Russia’s war on Ukraine from network anchor Kaitlan Collins.
As Collins pressed Trump about his trust that Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to end the three-year war, Trump cut her off and insulted CNN’s “credibility.” He also blasted former President Joe Biden – whom he called a “friend” of Collins.
A reporter asked Trump, “When Putin says that he really wants peace, do you believe him?”
“Yeah, I do,” Trump said. “I believe he wants peace. I believe that President Putin – when I spoke to him yesterday, I mean, I know him very well – yeah, I think he was peace. I think he would tell me if he didn’t, I think he’d I’d like to see peace.”
Collins then asked Trump, “Do you trust President Putin?”
Trump, in response, argued that the war in Ukraine was ultimately Biden’s fault before he laid into her and her employer:
But you lost millions of people when they knocked down those cities. And they’re all lying down on the side. They’re lying down just in ashes and all crumbled up concrete. They literally look like a world-class demolition site. And many of them, almost all of them, but many of them. And this should have been done by Biden years ago. This should have never been allowed to happen. I know [Biden is] a friend of yours. He’s a friend of CNN. That’s why nobody watches CNN anymore. Because they have no credibility.
Laughter broke out in the Oval Office as Trump slammed the network. Collins attempted to respond to Trump, but he cut her off and moved on to another reporter.
Trump revealed Wednesday he had spoken to Putin about the war in Ukraine and claimed Russia is interested in negotiating with him to end the conflict.
Watch the video via CNN.
