WELKER: You obviously launched a fresh round of strikes overnight. Iran said overnight the Strait of Hormuz is closed. CENTCOM came out this morning and said the Strait of Hormuz is open.
Which is it Mr. President and how are you going to respond?
TRUMP: I don't want to talk about it, because I want to honor the life of Lindsey Graham, so I don't want to talk about it. I told you that before the call.
WELKER: Yeah.
TRUMP: It's open. We bombed the hell out of them last night. They're very, very evil and sick people. We had meetings with them and they agreed to a deal yesterday, a perfect deal for us. No nuclear, no this, no that, no nothing. They gave up everything.
And then after that, they left the room, and then, within an hour they launched a drone at a ship. I said you people are sick. You're sick people, and so it's one of those things.
I don't want to talk about it. I want to talk about one person today, Lindsey Graham.
WELKER: As we should Mr. President.
Which was met by compliance and Welker asking him to give his final thoughts on Graham in response.
CNN's Jake Tapper wasn't any better:
TAPPER: Iran has declared the Strait of Hormuz closed. Is that true?
TRUMP: It's open as far as we're concerned. Don't talk about it. Talk about the reason you asked me to speak.
The media has every right to ask Trump about his war of aggression, and none of them should be agreeing to terms like that before having him on, especially given the events of this weekend.
Shameful.
Correct response: I'm interviewing you Mr. President, I can ask whatever I want. If you hang up the phone it will demonstrate to our viewers that you cannot handle tough questions: You simply run away. Is that what you're doing with Iran?
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