Trump pressures journalist to accept doctored photo as real: ‘Why don’t you just say yes?’
President lashed out at Terry Moran in tense TV interview, which included questions about deportations and tariffs
Donald Trump lashed out at an ABC journalist in a tense TV interview to mark 100 days of his second term in office, in which among other confrontations he angrily pushed correspondent Terry Moran to agree with him that a doctored photo was actually real, telling him: Why don't you just say yes."
The 40-minute interview in the Oval Office veered off course when Moran pressed Trump on the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadorian man living in Maryland who was deported despite a protective court order. When Moran pointed out that the supreme court had ordered Garcia's return to the US, and suggested Trump had the power to comply by making a single phone call, the president bristled.
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