President Trump and Kristen Welker’s ‘Meet the Press’ Interview Goes Off the Rails

**Deven** (0:08)
Welcome to the TMZ Podcast. Deven here with Courtney.

**Courtney** (0:11)
Hi.

**Deven** (0:12)
How was your weekend? How's your Monday going?

**Courtney** (0:15)
It was good. It was fine.

**Deven** (0:17)
Yeah, mine was chill.

**Courtney** (0:18)
Yeah, I was like, I don't even remember like what I really did.

**Deven** (0:21)
Do you ever remember what you did on the weekend?

**Courtney** (0:22)
Yes, but it was like that chill.

**Deven** (0:23)
Yeah.

**Courtney** (0:24)
That's why.

**Deven** (0:24)
Okay, that's nice. I don't know if you can see it.

**Courtney** (0:27)
I know you have a little stain on your shirt.

**Deven** (0:29)
I'll just address the elephant in the room. This is now the second time that I've spilled coffee on my bright white shirt.

**Courtney** (0:36)
Yeah, why?

**Deven** (0:38)
I have issues. I dribbled out of my mouth. And I had to do a live shot.

**Courtney** (0:41)
In a few different spots. There's one here, one there, one down lower.

**Deven** (0:44)
Yeah, we won't get into it. But yeah, I had to address it with Detroit this morning. So I wanted to address it here as well.
We will get into the story. So President Trump stormed off an interview last night. It was pretty fiery.

**Courtney** (1:00)
Shocking.

**Deven** (1:01)
Yeah, I mean, he obviously has a big night tonight. He's going to be attending the Knicks' first playoff game at MSG. But last night he did an interview and was not very happy. So we will talk to you about that interaction.
The Celeste Revis family back in the news. We don't have any updates on David, per se.

**Courtney** (1:21)
Yeah, nothing on the case.

**Deven** (1:22)
But there is a lot of different people who are wanting to do documentaries on this story. And we have an answer whether or not the Celeste Revis family is going to be participating in any of the documentaries.

**Courtney** (1:35)
Got it.

**Deven** (1:36)
And lastly, huge news that we broke Friday, literally right as I was leaving.

**Courtney** (1:42)
I still don't want to believe it.

**Deven** (1:43)
Yeah, I know. I saw a lot of takes over the weekend. I'm sure you're one of them thinking that there's no way that they're getting married there and that this is all a diversion.

**Courtney** (1:52)
Yeah, Taylor Swift and Travis were talking about.

**Deven** (1:54)
Yeah, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey's wedding venue, we broke the story on Friday. So we will tell you where that is, how many people are going and all the speculation around it.

**Courtney** (2:04)
Oh, jeez.

**Deven** (2:05)
So first for President Trump. So did you watch this interview last night or just this morning?

**Courtney** (2:10)
Just this morning. I heard about it earlier.

**Deven** (2:13)
Got it. So Donald Trump abruptly ended a televised interview on NBC's Meet the Press after a pretty contentious exchange with the host of the show, Kristen Welker. We're allowed to play this one, right?

**Donald Trump** (2:25)
Yeah.

**Deven** (2:25)
Alright, cool.

**Courtney** (2:26)
I did not like this.

**Deven** (2:27)
Let's play this one.

**Donald Trump** (2:28)
Do you think it's appropriate that they have an election and five days later, they're nowhere close to picking one?

**Deven** (2:34)
State and local officials acknowledge they are slow.

**Courtney** (2:36)
They're urging.

**Donald Trump** (2:37)
No, they're crooked.

**Deven** (2:38)
They're urging the votes to be counted quickly.

**Donald Trump** (2:40)
That's how they vote in California. They're crooked, just like you're crooked. Your press is crooked. And Meet the Press is crooked. To be fair, I'm not crooked.

**Deven** (2:46)
But let's continue.

**Donald Trump** (2:46)
Really? Well, you play right into their hands.

**Deven** (2:48)
Let's continue.

**Donald Trump** (2:49)
You're either crooked or you're stupid. You play right into their hands with this rep. You know that these elections are rigged. Your network knows that they're rigged. You know that I won an election in a landslide, and I got 94% bad press. But Mr. President, you've never presented evidence.
Because you have no credibility. But you've never presented evidence that it was rigged.

**Deven** (3:11)
Let's keep talking about it.

**Donald Trump** (3:12)
I want to talk about Todd Holt. You have more evidence, there's more evidence than ever presented.

**Deven** (3:17)
Let's talk about it.

**Donald Trump** (3:18)
Your elections in this country, we're like a third world country.
Your elections are crooked, and you're crooked, and Meet the Press is crooked. And so is ABC, and CBS, and CNN. You're one sided crooked network. Let's call it quits, cuz I've had enough. Thank you darling, have a good time. Mr. President, please, I traveled all the way to Wisconsin. I've sat in the rain with you for an hour, on and off in the rain. And I've given you enough time. You ought to straighten out your press, because you know what? A country can never be great with a dishonest press.