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president Donald Trump And Defense Secretary Pete Heges opposed the “fake news” media at a NATO Summit press conference to doubt that the US had wiped out the country’s nuclear program against Iran.
“We’ve received a statement from Israel’s Atomic Energy Commission,” Trump said at a press conference on Wednesday from The Hague, closing his trip to the NATO summit in the Netherlands. “As you know, they’re very serious people.”
“‘The catastrophic US strike at Fordow has destroyed the site’s critical infrastructure and prevented the enrichment facility from operating completely,” Trump reads from the letter. “‘It’s been devastated. We evaluated the US strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities as retreating Iran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons for years to come. This achievement can last indefinitely. If Iran would do that Do not access nuclear material. ”
Trump targeted US media outlets for initially casting doubt that the strike ordered Iran on Saturday evening was not as devastating as it originally reported, calling outlets such as CNN’s “fake news,” and accusing them of “abusing” the US troops for suspecting the ferociousness of the strike.
Trump slams CNN as “gutless loser” to compensate for our strike in Iran
Secretary of State Marco Rubio (R) will listen as President Donald Trump addressed a press conference during the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) National and Government Summit held in The Hague on June 25, 2025. (Nicolas Tucat/AFP Getty Images)
“I want to thank the pilot,” Trump said. “You know, they’re very malicious, treated very badly, succumb to fake news CNN, go back there, believe it, waste time, waste time. No one has seen them. They’ve wasted my time.
The president added that the pilot, who deployed from Missouri for a strike to Iran, was “devastated” because of certain media outlets trying to downplay the success of the mission.
“You know, did I get a call from Missouri? I’ve won a lot of things three times, and I got a call that the plane pilots and planes were devastated because (the media) were trying to minimize the attacks, and they were devastated,” he said.
“They put their lives on the line, then they have, and I’m not mentioning you, a real scum. The real scum comes out and writes a negative report as much as possible,” Trump continued.
The map shows that it is causing damage to the nuclear scene in Fordou, Iran after being attacked by the US in Operation Midnight Hammer. (Fox News)
Hegses joined Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio At the summit, CNN and the New York Times also denounced them at a press conference. Hegseth claimed that such media were working “to find a way to spin” the news.
“There’s a reason why the president calls fake news about what it is. These pilots, these refueling, these fighters, these air defensemen. The skills and courage that he took to enter the territory of an enemy that flies 36 hours on behalf of the Americans and the world, is beyond what everyone in this audience is wrong.
“And the instinct, the CNN instinct, the New York Times instinct is to try and find a way to spin it for their own political reasons, in order to hurt President Trump and our country. They don’t care what the military is thinking. Are they sharing all the information, or are they only sharing the parts they want to introduce?”
Trump announced Saturday evening at the Truth Social Post, which surprised the US military successfully carried out strikes at three Iranian nuclear facilities, saying the facility was “completely and completely wiped out” later that night.
Vice President J.D. V. V. V. D. Vance, from left, President Donald Trump, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegses addressed the nation on Saturday, June 21, 2025 in a speech to the Eastern Room of the White House in Washington, DC. (Carlos Barrier/Reuters/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“For 40 years, Iran has been saying, “Death to America. Death to Israel.” They killed our people, blew our arms away, and blew our legs out with roadside bombs,” Trump said in his speech on Saturday that the trio stood behind him. “It was their specialty. We lost over 1,000 people, especially as a direct result of their hatred, hundreds of thousands of people have died in the Middle East and around the world.”
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“Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility has been completely wiped out,” Trump said. “And now, Iran, a bully in the Middle East, must make peace, or future attacks will be much bigger and much easier.”
President Donald Trump speaks to NATO Executive Director Mark Latte in a group photo of the NATO head of state and government at the NAGO Summit in the Hague, Netherlands on Wednesday, June 25th, 2025. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
A handful of legacy and liberal media have tried to cast doubt that the strike had indeed devastated Iranian facilities, including the strikes making exclusive Tuesday public.The US strike against Iran did not destroy it Nuclear site, ” The New York Times reported The Fordow nuclear facility was “severely damaged” but not “destroyed.”
White House officials, including spokesman Caroline Leavitt, have denounced reports such as “fake news.”
President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary-General Mark Latte will be attending the Plenary Meeting held at the NATO Summit in The Hague, Netherlands on June 25th, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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“This suspected ‘rating’ was completely wrong and categorized as ‘top secret’, but was leaked to CNN by an anonymous low-level loser in the intelligence news community,” posted on X on the CNN report on Tuesday. “The leak of this suspected rating is a clear attempt to lightly mean President Trump, and not trust the brave fighter pilot who has made a fully executed mission to eliminate Iran’s nuclear program. Everyone knows what happens when they completely drop a 30,000-pound bomb on their target.”
