Spin Cycle: Trump Takes On NBC Anchor In Combative 'Meet The Press' Interview

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

80% : Trump's repeated jabs at Welker during the interview reflect the tone that most associated with his second administration have taken with members of the press -- and the tone that Trump himself exhibited in a previous wide-ranging interview with ABC News anchor Terry Moran -- making his interview the perfect summary of a week in legacy media narratives.
77% : Many people love Trump ...
73% : " When asked directly, Trump named Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio as potential successors.
71% : "I'm looking to have four great years and turn it over to somebody -- ideally a great Republican, a great Republican -- to carry it forward," Trump said.
51% : I won the popular vote," Trump said.
44% : now he's saying... 'We've been waiting 40 years for somebody to do what Trump is doing.'
43% : Welker asked, provoking an immediate reaction from Trump.
39% : Welker began the interview with questions about the economy, asking Trump whether he deserved credit -- or blame -- for the general direction the economy has taken during the first 100 days of his administration.
38% : Trump, who has often said that the cases against him were entirely political in nature, said no -- the goal was to make sure that the people filling such roles were "honest people." "What do you say to those who believe you are taking the country down an authoritarian path?"
33% : some of the worst, most dangerous on earth -- and I was elected to get them the hell out of here and the courts are holding me from doing it," Trump added.
31% : "The big emergency right now is that we have thousands of people that we want to take out -- and we have some judges that want everybody to go to court," Trump said, arguing that based on the numbers, it would take hundreds of years to process every illegal immigrant through the court system.
29% : We're going to have millions of court cases?" Welker pressed Trump on whether or not he believed everyone in the United States -- whether citizen or not -- was entitled to due process and the right to plead their case before a judge, and Trump's reply was simple: "I don't know, I'm not a lawyer.
28% : NBC's interpretation of that exchange was slightly different: "Trump, asked if he has to 'uphold the Constitution,' says, 'I don't know'." Welker went on to challenge Trump's actions regarding certain political adversaries - in particular those who were directly involved in prosecuting the legal cases against him -- asking whether he was making matters worse by stripping their security clearances.
27% : " NBC News, true to form, published that same clip under a headline suggesting that Trump was passing off the less positive economic numbers on Biden -- without noting that the president was right when he said that some policies took longer to show results than others might.
23% : " Welker even asked Trump about rumors that he was actively considering running for a third term as president -- rumors that the president quickly laughed off.
19% : Trump called host Kristen Welker out directly several times over biased questions.
19% : Welker pressed the president on the tariffs, arguing that there were some small businesses hurt by the initial impact -- but Trump immediately challenged her framing of the issue.
13% : " When the topic turned to illegal immigration, Trump referenced what Attorney General Pam Bondi has labeled the "real constitutional crisis" -- the fact that Democrats and a number of carefully-shopped district court judges have attempted to overwhelm the system by forcing the Trump administration to adjudicate every illegal immigrant's individual case prior to ordering deportation.

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