On Fox & Friends, President Trump attacks The Wall Street Journal for its coverage of the Iran war
Trump: “You read the The Wall Street Journal, which is so fake. You know, I mean, I know you guys own it, but it's a real piece of garbage.”
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From the June 11, 2026, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends
DONALD TRUMP (GUEST): Well, it's just one of those things. They have no defense. They can't do anything about it. They the only thing they have is fake news. You know?
They have — The New York Times writes stories like like they're doing great, and they're not. They've been wiped out. CNN and that MS NOW or whatever they call it nowadays, NBC had to get rid of it because it was bad for their reputation. But the, you know, publicity that they have is incredible. It's almost like they're doing well, and they're getting decimated, just decimated, and they're dying to make a deal.
They want to make a deal so badly. But, you know, you read The New York Times and you read the The Wall Street Journal, which is so fake. You know, I mean, I know you guys own it, but it's a real piece of garbage. And you read The Wall Street Journal, it's like they did an editorial today about we're not hitting them hard enough. I mean, it's just not hitting them hard enough. We dropped $250 million worth of bombs on them last night. You know? The whole thing is crazy. But — and they're — and they're really in sub — in submission. They just don't know it yet, okay, to be honest with you.
They just don't know it yet. And we are talking to them and all. But, you know, look. My preference has always been take Kharg Island. That's been — Brian knows that. I spoke to him a long time ago. Lawrence knows it. I spoke to him a long time ago. I said my preference would be that. I don't know that America has the stomach for it, to be honest with you.
You know, make a fortune, but I don't know that America has the stomach. I think you'd like to see us come home, but we did it with Venezuela. Venezuela has worked out great for everybody. We've taken millions and millions of barrels of oil out of Venezuela. We brought them to Houston and various other places, Louisiana, where, you know, refineries that we have that are incredible.
They're going twenty-four hours a day. Making a fortune. And, you know, I like that in this case too, but I'm not sure that — America has a long time you know, it's a Right. It's a little longer process, something that's a guarantee if I want to do it.