Moment Trump lashes out at reporter from one of America's most prestigious newspapers aboard Air Force One
The footage was filmed as Trump made his way to DC from Palm Beach via Air Force One Sunday.
The unnamed reporter is heard asking a question about Trump's diplomacy talks with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin - before being met with a pointed question himself.
'Who [are] you with?' Trump is heard asking over commotion caused by the gaggle.
'Wall Street Journal,' the male reporter replies - paving the way for a meltdown to remember.
'That's what I thought,' Trump snapped back, suggesting the right-leaning paper was somehow out to get him.
The response grew more scathing from there - capping what appears to be a falling out between Trump and his old friend Rupert Murdoch, who also owns Fox News and the New York Post.
'Boy, you people treat us so badly,' he said of the paper Murdoch acquired in 2007, months after panning it as a 'globalist' rag and 'polluted' after it criticized his tariffs.
The paper notably dubbed such policies as 'The Dumbest Trade War In History' - fueling the increasingly public falling out.
'Wall Street Journal has truly gone to hell,' Trump is heard exclaiming during the now-viral flameout.
'Go ahead, yeah,' he continued, urging the journalist to elaborate on his question.
'Rotten newspaper. You hear me? What I said? It's a rotten newspaper,' he asserted first, however - before being met with a follow-up from the persistent newsman.
'Are there any updates on talks with Vladimir Putin?' the journalist at this point asked - again rubbing the commander-in-chief the wrong way in the process.
Trump, 78, responded by refusing to answer - telling the Journal reporter his publication was simply not worth his time and merely a mouthpiece for China, the president's primary adversary when it comes to leveling tariffs.
'I wouldn't tell The Wall Street Journal because it'd be wasting my time,' Trump told all the reporters in attendance.
'There are talks, but I don't want to talk to The Wall Street Journal.
'Look, Wall Street Journal is China-oriented, and they're really bad for this country,' he concluded, days after Elon Musk attacked the Journal for a separate story claiming Tesla had started the process of shopping for a new CEO.
Trump: Who you with?
Reporter: Wall Street Journal
Trump: Wall Street Journal has truly gone to hell. Rotten newspaper. You hear me, what I said… It's a rotten newspaper.. pic.twitter.com/w81IMLJFah
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 5, 2025
In March, Trump declared the paper presents a 'polluted' and 'antiquated' way of thinking, shortly after he found himself on the wrong end of some unflattering coverage surrounding his policies
'China called Trump's bluff and seems to have won this round,' a portion of a piece from the Journal's usually conservative editorial board last month proclaimed, for instance.
A similar shift in attitude was seen on Murdoch-owned asset Fox News and Fox Business, both of which began to criticize the conservative for his approach in April.
At the time, the Journal reported an appearance from JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon on Maria Bartiromo's Mornings With Maria was what swayed Trump into pausing tariffs - a move that was almost immediately met with a gains to a then tanking stock market.
A source told the paper the banker 'knew' Trump and his inner circle 'often watched Fox', and that his message would thus likely get through.
Dimon, like others, had warned persisting the policy would trigger a devastating recession.
Trump, who has yet to meet with Putin in-person despite calls from the Kremlin for such a summit, has not yet turned on Fox News.
At the time, the Journal reported an appearance from JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon on Maria Bartiromo's Mornings With Maria was what swayed Trump into pausing tariffs - a move that was almost immediately met with a gains to a then tanking stock market
Personalities there such as Jesse Watters and Bartiromo continue to talk up Trump, despite his deepening unpopularity.
According to a poll conducted by the network, approval of Trump's job performance is currently at 44 percent - down 5 points from March.
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