Conservative columnist unloads on Trump for storming out of interview: 'Just gross'

Conservative columnist S.E. Cupp unloaded on President Donald Trump on Monday night after the president stormed out of an interview with NBC News's Kristen Welker over the weekend.

On Friday, Trump stormed out of an interview with Welker when she challenged his claim that the 2020 general election was rigged against him. The interview aired during Sunday's broadcast of "Meet the Press."

"I sat with you in the rain, for an hour, on and off in the rain," Trump told Welker before he stormed off set. "I've given you enough time. You oughta straighten out your press because a country can never be great with a dishonest press."

Welker begged the president to stay, but he ripped off his microphone and left the set.

Cupp reacted to video of the interaction during a segment on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront."

"It's not often he's sitting across from someone in sort of a captive environment where someone says, 'Prove it,'" Cupp said. "You've not proved this."

Trump consistently claimed that the 2020 election was stolen from him. But his lawyers have been unable to prove that argument in more than 60 court cases across the country. Some of Trump's former lawyers have been disbarred for participating in the plot to overturn the results of the election.

"So he's got to go to the greatest hits of the press is corrupt," Cupp continued. "He doesn't want press. He wants propaganda. And when he's sitting across from someone who's not going to do the propaganda, he thinks this country is going to hell ... Obviously, Kristen knows better than that, and I think she handled herself incredibly well given that situation. It was just gross."