Friday saw a wild exchange play out between President Trump and a member of the media aboard Air Force One as it made its way back from China.
The New York Times’ David Sanger pointed out that Trump’s Operation Epic Fury did not result in political transition in Iran, but that the same Islamic Republic theocratic government is in charge. Sanger in essence questioned whether there was actually ‘total victory’ as Trump and his officials have repeatedly claimed. A visibly angered Trump, standing physically close to Sanger, rebuked this line of questioning as “treasonous” coverage of the “victory” accomplished by the United States. Watch the tense scene play out:
Trump to NYT's David Sanger: "I had a total military victory. But the fake news, guys like you, write incorrectly. You're a fake guy. We had a total military victory. I actually think it's sort of treasonous what you write. You should be ashamed of yourself. I actually think it's… pic.twitter.com/QK421YHKtq
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 15, 2026
“I had a total military victory. But the fake news, guys like you, write incorrectly. You’re a fake guy. We had a total military victory. I actually think it’s sort of treasonous what you write. You should be ashamed of yourself. I actually think it’s treason.”
As if to emphasize the charge, Trump peppered his comments by using ‘treason’ or ‘treasonous’ several times throughout his response, singling out both the NY Times and CNN in particular.
“I actually think it’s sort of treasonous what you write,” the president reiterated while lambasting Sanger, describing the Times and CNN “the worst.”
Trump likely has in mind some of Sanger’s earlier articles as well, given he reported earlier this month that while the Iranian ayatollah was “clearly gone” – it remains that the Islamic Republic’s nuclear stockpile has remained untouched, even if likely buried underground at destroyed nuclear sites. Also there’s still open questions surrounding Iran’s missile and drone arsenal, and its ability to reequip during the ongoing fragile ceasefire.
The US President has also in a separate Fox News interview asserted he didn’t underestimate anything when it came to the Iran situation, and closure of the Strait of Hormuz:
🚨 NEW: Fox's @BretBaier asks President Trump if he underestimated Iran's pain tolerance: “Why are we where we are?”
— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) May 15, 2026
TRUMP: I didn’t underestimate anything. We hit them unbelievably hard. Look, we left their bridges. We left their electricity capacity. We can knock that all out… pic.twitter.com/AvXO9akZeZ
And yet, a prime stated goal of the current ‘Project Freedom’ is to open the Hormuz Strait back up, or in other words the military mission has become to merely return the strait to its pre-war status.
Here’s Secretary of State Rubio just days ago: “It’s for the Strait to be open, back to the way it was. It’s for anyone to use it, no mines in the water, nobody paying tolls. That’s what we have to get back to and that’s the goal here.” Or again: The goal of the war in Iran is now to return it to how it was before Trump started the war. It seems that Trump considers that pointing out inconvenient facts of the Iran war (or what his own top officials have said) to be ‘treason’.
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Trumps bragging discredits him.
Notice how they emphasize a military victory which has not happened, to distract from the mess.
Bye bye Miss American Pie ’cause now we got Trumpy the Trickster. No more kind hearted, sweet soul just rape and pillage and all brought to us by the global corporate state. Enjoy and buy, buy, buy, while you still can.
yep and all the alledged stuff Alex jones says trump got is all bullshit, all those investment talks about bringing jobs to the united states was nothing more than a sound bite! Its all theater and illusion with TACO BOY!
Is this the donald trump news network now or some thing?
The Reality: Trump isn’t worried about “treason.” He’s worried about being exposed. He knows he failed. He knows he sold out the American worker to fund his ego trips and his donors’ war machines. He knows that while he was playing “commander in chief,” he was actually dismantling the safety nets that protect Americans and sending our wealth overseas.
Calling David Sanger a traitor for reporting the truth is the ultimate gaslight. The treasonous piece of shit is the one in the White House who prioritizes foreign agendas over American lives, who lies about military outcomes to save his own skin, and who tries to criminalize dissent.
He’s not a leader. He’s a fraud who would burn the country down to keep his secret. And the fact that he has the audacity to scream “treason” while he’s actively betraying every oath he swore? That’s not just hypocrisy; it’s the most disgusting form of cowardice.
He’s the enemy of the people, not the press. And anyone who can’t see that is being played like a violin.
Trump Says He Wants Iran’s Uranium Mostly for ‘Public Relations’
Trump said in an interview with Fox News aired on Thursday evening in the US that the mission to recover the uranium, which is thought to be buried beneath the rubble of bombed nuclear sites, could be viewed as unnecessary because the US was maintaining round-the-clock surveillance.
“We have nine cameras on that site, on those three sites, 24 hours a day,” Trump said. “We know exactly what’s happening. Nobody’s even gotten close to it.”
Still, the president said, he ultimately would rather get the material out of the country.
“I just feel better if I got it, actually,” Trump said. “But it’s, I think it’s more for public relations than it is for anything else.”
Trump also raised the prospect of bombing the site again to make sure it’s inaccessible.
finance.yahoo.com/sectors/energy/articles/trump-says-wants-iran-uranium-022820796.html
Voted 3 times for this man, but this newer version is unacceptable to put it nicely
So now pointing out the obvious that this war is a failure is treason
History has shown us what happens when leader’s pf countries act this/talk this way