'Wow, thank you!' Dramatic flip sees Trump gushing over bitter nemesis

President Donald Trump heaped praise onto longtime NBC journalist Chuck Todd Tuesday following remarks comparing Trump to former President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The gushing on Truth Social bucked years of bitter animosity between the two figures.

“Wow, thank you Chuck,” Trump wrote in the online post Tuesday.

“I always said that you were far better than the scum that runs the fake news at NBC and, especially, Brian Roberts and ‘concast.’ You are a free man now.”

Speaking on the Christian Broadcast Network Monday Todd, who left NBC in January, said that he believed Trump had been the most impactful president “since FDR, particularly when it came to his cultural impact.

“I think culturally, in particular, certainly on our political identity, I think he's had – not since FDR we had this kind of, a president with – look, he wants to involve himself in everything,” Todd said Monday. “FDR involved himself in almost everything."

Trump’s praise reverses a longstanding feud between the two, with Trump regularly lashing out at Todd over the past several years. In 2018, Trump labeled the then-NBC reporter as “sleepy eyes Chuck Todd,” later calling him a “sleeping son of a b—-.” In 2020, Trump called for Todd to “be fired” after NBC ran a clip of comments made by then-Attorney General William Barr allegedly out of context.

Trump’s targeting of Todd was so fierce that the senior journalist said he began to receive real-world harassment from apparent Trump supporters, including receiving “weird death threats” and having his tires slashed.

While Todd’s recent comments comparing Trump to FDR appear largely neutral, speaking only to the level of impact Trump has had on American society, they were apparently enough to appease the president, who went on to congratulate Todd on leaving NBC — and telling him to “use (his) time well!”