Donald Trump Lashes Out at ‘Meet the Press’ Moderator Kristen Welker Again

Two and a half months after storming out of an interview with Kristen Welker and saying she was either “crooked” or “stupid,” President Donald Trump is once again denigrating the Meet the Press moderator.

“Kristen Welker, the Unpopular ‘Hostess’ of the once great Meet the Press, now considered Meet the Fake Press, just stated that Donald Trump has ‘mixed results’ on his Endorsements of Candidates, when the recent WINS of Darline Graham and Mike Mazzei, stand at 100% for the U.S. Senate, and 98% for the U.S. House, recently and over the longterm,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday, August 30. (Capitalization and emphasis are his.) “How can anyone be allowed to say this, working for freely given Public Airwaves?”

As Brian Stelter, chief media analyst at CNN, pointed out on X, Welker said Trump had “mixed results” in his endorsement results not on Meet the Press but instead on a pre-broadcast live shot on WRC-TV, NBC’s local station in Washington D.C.

In this Truth Social post, Trump shared a graphic showing he has a 98-percent success rate with his U.S. House endorsements and a 100-percent success rate with his U.S. Senate endorsements in the 2026 Republican primaries.

USA Today reports the same percentages but included a statistic that Trump didn’t: Only 79 percent of his gubernatorial endorsements this year won their primaries. NBC News also reported that the president’s endorsement record had taken a hit in August, when six candidates he endorsed lost their House and gubernatorial primaries.

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And even though Stelter asserts the Federal Communications Commission has no legal right to punish Welker, Trump suggested on Truth Social she could face consequences from the FCC.

“Because of this purposeful inaccuracy, she will be reported to the FCC for rebuke or punishment,” he wrote. “Unfortunately, she is not the only one. The Radical Left News is going out of their way to harass, demean, and libel anything ‘TRUMP.’”

He went on: “The Press is a Disgrace to our Nation, and I hope that Chairman Brendan Carr, and the fine people of his Commission, will take this Threat to our Country very seriously. Thank you for your attention to this very important matter of Fake Polls and Commentary! President DONALD J. TRUMP.”