Trump Ends NBC 'Meet the Press' Interview Early Over 2020 Election Questions
The incident illustrates the ongoing friction between the White House and national broadcast media, with the president's willingness to engage with — and then exit — major news forums carrying...
President Donald Trump ended a filmed interview with NBC News' 'Meet the Press' anchor Kristen Welker before its conclusion after Welker pressed him to provide evidence for his claim that the 2020 presidential election was 'stolen,' according to reports from the New York Post and Washington Examiner published June 7, 2026. The interview aired Sunday on NBC's 'Meet the Press' but was recorded Friday, June 6, 2026, at an agricultural roundtable in Wisconsin, according to the Washington Examiner. The setting was a metal barn, with Trump and Welker seated adjacent to a tractor; the Washington Examiner reported the session was interrupted multiple times by heavy rainfall.
According to both the New York Post and Washington Examiner accounts, the exchange became contentious when Welker stated that Trump had not provided documentary or evidentiary support for his assertions that the 2020 election was rigged. Trump responded by characterizing the interview and the press broadly as 'crooked,' per the Washington Examiner's reporting, before exiting the interview setting. Neither outlet specified the precise timestamp at which the interview ended relative to its scheduled duration; that information would be contained in NBC's production records or a transcript, which had not been released in full as of publication.
The 2020 presidential election results were certified by Congress on January 7, 2021, following confirmation by all 50 state election authorities. More than 60 federal and state court cases challenging the 2020 election results were dismissed or decided against petitioners, according to records maintained by the federal judiciary's PACER system and state court dockets. No federal court found evidence of fraud sufficient to alter any state's certified results.
The White House had not issued a formal statement on the interview's conclusion as of the time of this article's publication. NBC News had not released a full unedited transcript of the recorded session as of June 7, 2026. It is unknown whether Trump's team negotiated pre-interview conditions with NBC regarding permissible topic areas; any such agreement would be reflected in correspondence between White House communications staff and NBC News, which has not been made public.
What remains unknown: the full, unedited recording of the interview, which NBC News possesses; whether any pre-interview ground rules were established in writing between the White House and NBC; and the complete verbatim exchange leading up to the interview's conclusion. A formal Freedom of Information Act request directed at White House communications records, or release of NBC's unedited footage, would provide a more complete account.