Furious Trump takes aim at three 'fake news' journalists over 'dumb' Iran coverage
Among those singled out was CNN 's Anderson Cooper, who has bee reporting from Tel Aviv, Israel, and ABC News' Jonathan Karl, who interviewed Vice President JD Vance on Sunday after the attacks.
'The sites that we hit in Iran were totally destroyed, and everyone knows it,' Trump wrote in a scathing post to Truth Social on Monday.
'Only the Fake News would say anything different in order to try and demean, as much as possible — And even they say they were "pretty well destroyed!"
'Working especially hard on this falsehood is Allison Cooper of Fake News CNN, Dumb Brian L. Roberts, Chairman of "Con"cast, Jonny Karl of ABC Fake News, and always, the Losers of, again, Concast's NBC Fake News.
'It never ends with the sleazebags in the Media, and that's why their Ratings are at an ALL TIME LOW — ZERO CREDIBILITY!'
On Saturday, Cooper cited officials who said the operation's main target, the Fordo nuclear facility, was not directly hit. The extent of the damage to Fordo, as well as sites at Isfahan and Natanz, was unclear as of Sunday, US officials said/
The facility is buried deep within a mountain, and both US and Israeli officials told The New York Times Monday they believe the strike severely damaged the facility but did not destroy it.
President Donald Trump called out a handful of journalists Monday for their 'fake news' coverage that questioned the effectiveness of his strikes on Iran
Karl, ABC News's chief Washington correspondent, questioned the extent of the damage, while Comcast-owned NBC News deemed it 'unclear.'
The president had slammed Roberts in April as 'a disgrace to the integrity of broadcasting.'
Last year, Trump began referring to Anderson Cooper as 'Allison Cooper' in both social media posts at his rallies.
On Monday Karl, who also co-anchors 'This Week' with George Stephanopoulos, appeared on The View to discuss the president's statements on the attack.
'The president said completely obliterated,' Karl told the daytime panel.
'I spoke yesterday with Vice President JD Vance and asked him, "So I hear you saying severely damaged - but, wait a minute, the president said completely obliterated," Karl said.
'And he kind of dismissed, "Well, what's the difference? The point is, it's been set back years." It's a big difference.
'Are they set back or are they gone? And the president today, by the way, perhaps he saw my interview with JD Vance, is saying it's completely obliterated. Obliterated is the word.
'But you don't hear the military assessment saying that because we really don't know. Obviously there was severe damage done.'
Trump's post about the journalists came after s Iran's retaliation on a US airbase in Qatar. The president responded to that news in a later post, in which he called Iran's strike 'a very weak one.'
'There have been 14 missiles fired — 13 were knocked down and 1 was "set free." because it was headed in a nonthreatening direction, he wrote.
'I am pleased to report that NO Americans were harmed, and hardly any damage was done,'
'Most importantly, they've gotten it all out of their 'system,"' he declared, framing the exchange as a victory.
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