Trump slams ABC over George Stephanopoulos cutting off JD Vance mid-interview: 'Very nasty person'

WASHINGTON, DC: President Donald Trump took a jab at ABC News on Tuesday, October 14, after host George Stephanopoulos ended an interview with Vice President JD Vance abruptly. 

The POTUS went on the attack while meeting with the president of Argentina at the White House, surrounded by top officials. He took questions from the press, but when an ABC News reporter tried to ask him one, he lost his cool.

Trump says 'I don’t take questions from ABC fake News'

President Trump told the reporter on Tuesday, "You’re ABC fake News. I don’t take questions from ABC fake News. After what you did with Stephanopoulos to the Vice President of the United States, I don’t take questions from ABC fake News."

Trump's remarks came just moments after the POTUS brought up Vance’s heated Sunday, October 12, interview unprompted.

"JD went through a very friendly interview with George Sloppodopoulos, who was nice enough to pay me $16 million the last time we came. He had to pay $16 million to me, which was good," the POTUS said.

He continued, "It was worth it. It was worth having somebody lie if you get $16 million. That’s good."

Trump referred to ABC settling a defamation lawsuit in December, just before he retook office. The POTUS had sued George Stephanopoulos for his inappropriate remark on-air about him and E Jean Carroll.

Interestingly, the POTUS did not take kindly to how JD Vance was treated and was still fuming about it on Tuesday.

"JD had a very nasty person interviewing him, and we can’t let that happen. It just is inappropriate to cut off a highly respected vice president of the United States mid-sentence," Trump complained.

He added, "I guess it’s one way to win an argument. That was the only way the argument that was pretty inappropriate, I want to tell you that."

George Stephanopoulos cuts off his interview with JD Vance

George Stephanopoulos cut off his interview with JD Vance on Sunday after the VP fired back over being asked about bribery allegations involving a top Trump official.

The host asked Vance about Trump’s "Border Czar" Tom Homan reportedly accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash in September 2024 from undercover FBI agents.

Meanwhile, Vance dismissed the claims, saying, "George, you’ve covered the story ad nauseum. Tom Homan did not take a bribe. It’s a ridiculous smear. And the reason you guys are going after Tom Homan so aggressively is because he’s doing the job of enforcing the law."

He continued, "I think it’s really preposterous. I know Tom, I think that he’s a good man. He gets death threats, he gets attacked, he gets constantly threatened by people because he has the audacity to want to enforce the country’s immigration laws."

Vance added, "I think that it would be a much more interesting story about why is it that Tom Homan, who is simply enforcing America’s immigration laws, is getting constantly harassed and threatened to the point of death threats? That’s a much more interesting question that I think journalists should focus on. We can agree to disagree on that question."

However, Stephanopoulos pushed back that all he had asked was whether Homan had accepted $50,000, as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI.

Moreover, he went to break as Vance tried to protest. The White House has denied Homan committed any wrongdoing in response to the report that the Depatment of Justice shut down the investigation after Trump took office.