A new interview with President Donald Trump kicked off a firestorm of reaction on social media.
The 80-year-old president melted down on Time senior political correspondent Eric Cortellessa and editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs during the lengthy sit-down after they failed, in his estimation, to ask positive questions about his accomplishments, and he doubled down on his threat to annihilate Iran and attacked a CNN reporter by name.
"You haven't asked me one f------ positive question, all of this," Trump complained. "What about this? What about that? What about that? What about this? All negative. Why are you devoting all this time to the White House? You know how I do, I do that out of my back pocket. I pay for a lot of it, but I fix it because the White House should look like that. It shouldn’t look like — if you would have stood in that balcony and looked at that wall, half the wall was falling. It's actually dangerous. People are walking under, crap was falling off it all the time. Every time it rained, it was leaking, horrible."
"Now it's perfect, and I would say that I should be given credit for fixing the White House because I'm also doing very well with the war," he added. "I'm doing very well with another war that we already won, Venezuela. Do you notice you haven't asked me a question about Venezuela?"
The 80-year-old president's claims and behavior during the interview astonished readers.
"Proof that a vote for any Republican this November is a vote for Trump now, and well beyond 2028. The GOP is his," observed The Lincoln Project account, flagging a claim from an aide saying that Trump intended to hold onto his $400 million war chest for elections beyond this year.
"Among the newsy elements here: pressed three times if he thinks Israeli PM Netanyahu should be re-elected, President Trump dodges. He’s very careful but quite clear in NOT endorsing Bibi when given repeated chances," noted NBC News' Garrett Haake.
"President Trump expressed regret over nominating Justices Gorsuch, Barrett, and Kavanaugh due to their recent rulings opposing him, as revealed in a Time Magazine interview," reported the White House Watchdog account.
"The Time Magazine piece on the President has some surprisingly good questioning. And unsurprisingly crummy responses," commented Michigan State professor Ben Bushong.
"Kaitlan Collins is becoming his Katniss," mused popular X user Simone.
"Well, this is certainly projection of the highest order," opined conservative attorney George Conway, reacting to Trump's attack on Collins. "I've never seen Kaitlan when she wasn't in a perfectly pleasant mood. That said, however, I would not want to be around her when Alabama loses. And I certainly wouldn't want to gaslight her when her game face is on."
" Joe Biden was way more coherent than this even in the debate," Conway added.
"According to @time.com, in a 'clandestine' meeting with Musk in Dec. 2025, Trump asked Grok about kidnapping Maduro," revealed MS NOW's James Downie. "Grok said many Venezuelans would likely celebrate. The next month, when 'celebrations broke out...Trump came away thinking Grok was ingenious.'"
"Trump’s abusive behavior is sinking The Republican Party for decades to come," argued the popular Pocket News account. "Imagine what he is like with women behind closed doors. The rage continues and will not stop without therapy."
"Further evidence that Dim Donald has zero understanding of, let alone respect for, the American form of government," remarked retired public relations specialist Allan Schlosser, in response to Trump's claim that he regretted his own Supreme Court nominations.
"TIME: 'Would you rule out declaring a state of emergency in the lead up to the midterms unless there's widespread violence in the streets?' TRUMP: 'I don't rule anything out or in. We'll see,'" quoted newsman Stew Berger. "President Trump is dangerous. We need a Democratic Congress."
