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President Donald Trump blasted “fake news” reports on Tuesday, claiming that his strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites were somehow unsuccessful.
The president addressed the false reports in an all-caps post to Truth Social.
“FAKE NEWS CNN, TOGETHER WITH THE FAILING NEW YORK TIMES, HAVE TEAMED UP IN AN ATTEMPT TO DEMEAN ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL MILITARY STRIKES IN HISTORY. THE NUCLEAR SITES IN IRAN ARE COMPLETELY DESTROYED! BOTH THE TIMES AND CNN ARE GETTING SLAMMED BY THE PUBLIC!” he wrote.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt also pushed back on the mainstream media’s false narrative concerning the Iranian airstrikes.
“FAKE NEWS CNN STRIKES AGAIN: This alleged ‘assessment’ is flat-out wrong and was classified as ‘top secret’ but was still leaked to CNN by an anonymous, low-level loser in the intelligence community,” Leavitt posted to X.
“The leaking of this alleged assessment is a clear attempt to demean President Trump, and discredit the brave fighter pilots who conducted a perfectly executed mission to obliterate Iran’s nuclear program. Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000 pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration,” she added.
In another post, Leavitt called out reporter Natasha Bertrand, stating, “This CNN story was written by the same ‘reporter’ who wrote the very first FAKE NEWS story claiming the Hunter Biden laptop was disinformation. How did that work out for you, @NatashaBertrand?”
Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff also addressed rumors that the U.S. bombings of Iranian nuclear sites did not complete their objectives.
“We put 12 bunker buster bombs on Fordow. There’s no doubt that it breached the canopy…and there’s no doubt that it was OBLITERATED. So, the reporting out there that in some way suggests that we did not achieve the objective is just completely preposterous!” Witkoff told Laura Ingraham during a Fox News interview that Trump posted to his Truth Social account.
Trump told reporters on Tuesday that the actions set back Iran’s nuclear program by decades.
“In my opinion, it was basically decades, because I don’t think they’ll ever do it again,” he said of Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
