President Donald Trump snapped at a reporter who asked him about a luxury jet offered to him as a gift by Qatar's royal family.
The U.S. president was holding a joint press conference Wednesday afternoon in the Oval Office with his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, when NBC News correspondent Peter Alexander asked about the $400 million Boeing 747-8 the Pentagon was accepting from the foreign government.
"What are you talking about?" Trump said. "What are you talking about? You know, you ought to get out of here. What does this have to do with the Qatari jet? They're giving the United States Air Force a jet, okay, and it's a great thing. We're talking about a lot of other things. It's NBC trying to get off the subject of what you just saw.
"You are a real – you know, you're a terrible reporter. Number one, you don't have what it takes to be a reporter. You're not smart enough. But for you to go into a subject about a jet that was given to the United States Air Force, which is a very nice thing. They also gave $5.1 trillion worth of investment in addition to the jet."
Trump then repeated his threats to investigate Comcast, the parent company of NBC News, for its coverage of his presidency
"Go back, you ought to go back to your studio at NBC because [Comcast CEO] Brian Roberts and the people that run that place, they ought to be investigated," Trump said.
"They are so terrible the way you run that network, and you're a disgrace. No more questions from you."
Later he told the South African president that the reporter was a "jerk."
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