Trump Absolutely Loses It on ‘Sick and Dishonest’ Media ‘Who Probably Hate Our Country’ for ‘Quoting Fired Losers’

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President Donald Trump let loose on the press Wednesday morning over its coverage of his upcoming meeting with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, arguing the media is composed of “sick and dishonest people, who probably hate our Country.”

“Very unfair media is at work on my meeting with Putin. Constantly quoting fired losers and really dumb people like John Bolton, who just said that, even though the meeting is on American soil, ‘Putin has already won.’ What’s that all about? We are winning on EVERYTHING,” wrote Trump on Truth Social. “The Fake News is working overtime (No tax on overtime!). If I got Moscow and Leningrad free, as part of the deal with Russia, the Fake News would say that I made a bad deal! But now they’ve been caught.”

“Look at all of the real news that’s coming out about their CORRUPTION,” he concluded. “They are sick and dishonest people, who probably hate our Country. But it doesn’t matter because we are winning on everything!!! MAGA.”

Bolton, who served as Trump’s national security adviser during his first term but has emerged as one of the president’s most strident critics in recent years, has characterized Trump’s decision to meet with Putin in Alaska as a mistake.

“Putin has already won. He is the leader of a rogue state, and he’ll get a picture on U.S. soil with the president of the United States,” Bolton told The Atlantic‘s Jonathan Lemire. “Trump wants a deal. And if he can’t get one now, he may walk away from it entirely.”

“Putin kept pushing Trump and eventually went further than Trump was willing to be pushed. He got mad, so Putin gave him this summit. Now he wants to work his KGB magic on Trump and get him back in line,” he added.

Trump began his second administration with a conciliatory approach toward Putin and a hostile tone toward Ukraine, the country Putin invaded three and a half years ago. But in recent months, he’s become much more sympathetic to the Ukrainians and critical of Putin.

“I’ve been disappointed. Because I’d have, like, a great call with him [Putin], and then missiles would be lobbed into Kiev or some other place,” mused Trump at a press conference on Monday. “And you’d have 60 people laying on a road dying. I said, ‘That’s cold. That’s cold!'”