CNN Interrupts Live Coverage Of Trump In Oval Office To Correct His Statement That Network ‘Hates Our Country’

Baila Eve ZismanApril 16, 2025, 10:52 pmNews >

CNN anchor Dana Bash interrupted live coverage of Donald Trump to refute his claims that the network’s journalists at CNN “hate our country.”

Trump’s Oval Office appearance on Monday saw him attack CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins during an exchange regarding Kilmer Abrego Garcia – an El Salvadorian man who was wrongfully deported from the US and is still being held in an El Salvadorian prison, despite court orders for him to be returned.

When Collins asked about Garcia’s fate, Trump quipped, “Let’s hear the question from this very low-rated anchor at CB – at CNN low-rated!”

Collins questioned Trump, “Do you plan to press President Bukele to help return the man who your administration says was mistakenly deported to El Salvador?”

Instead of answering the question, Trump gave the floor to Attorney General Pam Bondi and deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller. He interrupted the conversation later on to claim, “CNN is totally slanting because they don’t know what’s happening. That’s why nobody’s watching them.”

When Collins asked Trump whether he would be abiding by his previous statement that he would follow court orders to return wrongfully deported individuals, Trump railed, “Why don’t you just say, ‘Isn’t it wonderful that we’re keeping criminals out of our country?’ Why can’t you say that? Why do you go over and over, and that’s why nobody watches you anymore, you know, you have no credibility.”

As Trump continued to rip CNN, Inside Politics cut from the Oval Office coverage to Bash for a statement denying Trump’s remarks. Bash told viewers, “OK, we have been listening to a lengthy live press conference inside the Oval Office with the leader of El Salvador, Bukele, where we have heard a lot of bits of information, a lot of news nuggets that we want to definitely focus on. – a lot of misinformation as well.”

Bash said, “I just want to say for the record, since we heard President Trump say in the Oval Office that CNN hates our country – CNN does not hate our country.”

“That should go without saying… I’ve been here for 32 years, and I see a rhetorical device in him trying to say such a thing,” she added.