‘SCUM!’ Trump Rages at CNN, MSNBC on White House Lawn Over Skeptical Coverage ‘To Demean Me!’

President Donald Trump raged at MSNBC and CNN over their coverage of the U.S. airstrikes in Iran, claiming they “hurt” bomber pilots by questioning his claims about the damage done.

The world was stunned Saturday night when President Donald Trump announced a series of U.S. airstrikes on nuclear sites in Iran. The strikes touched off waves of criticism and approval, as well as objections from both sides of the aisle in Congress.

After the strikes, Trump quickly claimed that all of Iran’s nuclear program had been “completely and totally obliterated” in the attack, but even Trump Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine told reporters that while the damage and destruction to the Iranian program were clearly “severe,” it was “way too early to comment” on the exact level of damage done. Even Fox News reported Caine’s remarks.

In a similar vein, CNN has run analyses of the potential damage scenarios, as have MSNBC and other outlets.

Both of those latter two networks drew Trump’s rage when he spoke to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House Tuesday morning as he departed the White House en route to The Hague, Netherlands.

He called the outlets “scum” and accused them of trying “to demean me” with their reporting:

REPORTER: How confident are you (INAUDIBLE)

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I think it’s been completely demolished. I think the reason we’re here is because those pilots, those B-2 pilots did an unbelievable job.

And, you know, the fake news, like CNN in particular, they’re trying to say, “Well, I agree that it was destroyed, but maybe not that destroyed.”

You know what they’re doing? They’re really hurting great pilots that put their lives on the line! CNN is SCUM! And so is MSDNC. They’re all —.

And frankly, the networks aren’t much better. It’s all fake news, but they should not have done that.

Those pilots hit their targets. Those targets were obliterated, and the pilots should be given credit. They’re not after the pilots. They’re after me. They want to try and demean me.

Watch above via the White House pool.