{"id":2451548,"date":"2025-06-24T23:47:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T03:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-media-teamed-up-to-demean-us-strike-on-iran\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T23:49:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T03:49:00","slug":"trump-says-media-teamed-up-to-demean-us-strike-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-media-teamed-up-to-demean-us-strike-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says media teamed up to &#8216;demean&#8217; US strike on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-says-media-teamed-up-to-demean-us-strike-on-iran%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2451548&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a recent statement, President Donald Trump accused the media of working together to &#8220;demean&#8221; a U.S. military strike on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-biden-lifts-sanctions-on-irans-nuclear-program\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Biden Lifts Sanctions On ...\u2019s ...\">iranian nuclear sites<\/a>, following the leak of an intelligence assessment claiming that the attack only delayed Iran&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pm-netanyahu-israel-will-not-allow-iran-to-obtain-a-nuclear-weapon\/\" title=\"PM Netanyahu: Israel will not allow ... to obtain a nuclear weapon\">nuclear program<\/a> by a few months. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth echoed Trump&#8217;s sentiments, asserting that the strikes had &#8220;obliterated&#8221; the nuclear capabilities. Trump criticized media outlets like CNN and The New York Times for portraying the operation negatively, claiming it was one of the most successful military actions in history. According to reports,a defense Intelligence Agency assessment suggested that while important damage occurred,it was not a total destruction of the facilities,and future setbacks were anticipated. The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >incident raised concerns<\/a> over the leaked details, with some calling it &#8220;treasonous.&#8221; Despite efforts to negotiate a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, Trump&#8217;s frustration over the conflicts was evident as he prepared to attend a NATO summit.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump says media teamed up to &lsquo;demean&rsquo; US strike on Iranian nuclear sites after intel leak<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2157566\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> said Tuesday that the media collaborated to &ldquo;demean&rdquo; the U.S. strike on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Iranian<\/a> nuclear sites over the weekend following a leaked damage assessment of the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Defense Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/pete-hegseth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Pete Hegseth<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KToropin\/status\/1937634944916029566\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">said<\/a> the leaked damage report, which alleged the strikes merely set the Iranian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-bill-would-mandate-congress-approve-any-sanctions-relief-for-iran\/\" title=\"New Bill Would Mandate Congress Approve Any Sanctions Relief for ...\">nuclear program back<\/a> by months, was an attempt to &ldquo;undermine&rdquo; Trump. Both Hegseth and Trump had insisted the sites were &ldquo;obliterated.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3452444\/trump-israel-iran-war-nato-summit-leaders\/\">Trump caps dramatic 24 hours in Israel-Iran war with NATO summit leaders<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3453032\/trump-approval-rating-lowest-point-second-term-iran-conflict-poll\/\">Trump net approval hits lowest point of second term amid US strikes on Iran: Poll<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3450554\/trump-handcuffed-2028-maga-successors-iran-attack\/\">Trump &#8216;handcuffed&#8217; 2028 MAGA successors to him with Iran attack<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;FAKE NEWS CNN, TOGETHER WITH THE FAILING NEW YORK TIMES, HAVE TEAMED UP IN AN ATTEMPT TO DEMEAN ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL MILITARY STRIKES IN HISTORY,&rdquo; Trump<a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/114741478150368433\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> posted on Truth Social. <\/a>&ldquo;THE NUCLEAR SITES IN IRAN ARE COMPLETELY DESTROYED! BOTH THE TIMES AND CNN ARE GETTING SLAMMED BY THE PUBLIC!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Based on everything we&rsquo;ve seen &mdash; and I&rsquo;ve seen it all &mdash; our bombing campaign obliterated Iran&rsquo;s ability to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-launches-cyberattack-causing-severe-damage-to-irans-nuclear-program-as-biden-seeks-new-deal-reports\/\" title=\"Israel Launches Cyber... Causing \u2018Severe ...\u2019 To ...\u2019s ... As Biden Seeks New Deal: Reports\">create nuclear weapons<\/a>,&rdquo; Hegseth said in a statement addressing the reporting. Trump shared <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/114740983180952850\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Hegseth&rsquo;s statement on Truth Social.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our massive bombs hit exactly the right spot at each target &mdash; and worked perfectly,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;The impact of those bombs is buried under a mountain of rubble in Iran; so anyone who says the bombs were not devastating is just trying to undermine the President and the successful mission.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Vice President JD Vance also shared a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SeanParnellATSD\/status\/1937619046943588441\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Defense Department official&rsquo;s assessment<\/a> that the sites had been &ldquo;obliterated.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/3452950\/us-strikes-only-set-iran-nuclear-program-back-months-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">An assessment from<\/a> the Defense Intelligence Agency, the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/pentagon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pentagon&rsquo;s<\/a>&nbsp;intelligence wing, surveyed the damage from the United States&rsquo;s B-2 strikes with 30,000-pound bunker-buster munitions and smaller follow-up strikes from Israel&rsquo;s air force, sources told several outlets. Based on information gathered from a U.S. Central Command assessment, the DIA estimated that the strikes on the nuclear facilities, particularly the Fordow fuel enrichment plant, set Iran&rsquo;s nuclear program back by less than six months.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">President Donald Trump arrives for a dinner at the Huis Ten Bosch Palace during the NATO Summit on Tuesday, June 24, 2025, in The Hague, Netherlands. (Sean Kilpatrick\/The Canadian Press via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Steve Witkoff, the Trump administration&rsquo;s special envoy to the Middle East, called the report&rsquo;s leak &ldquo;treasonous.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Leaking that type of information, whatever the information, whatever side it comes out on, is outrageous,&rdquo; he said in a Fox News interview. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s treasonous. So it ought to be investigated, and whoever did it, whoever is responsible for it, should be held accountable.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) said the strikes were not meant to &ldquo;completely destroy&rdquo; the facilities.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been briefed on this plan in the past, and it was never meant to completely destroy the nuclear facilities but rather cause significant damage,&rdquo; he told CNN. &ldquo;But it was always known to be a temporary setback.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/3452950\/us-strikes-only-set-iran-nuclear-program-back-months-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">US STRIKES ONLY SET IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM BACK BY MONTHS, INTELLIGENCE SUGGESTS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump announced a ceasefire on Monday evening between Israel and Iran, but he expressed frustration when it appeared to be broken shortly after. It has since held up.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don&rsquo;t know what the f*** they&rsquo;re doing,&rdquo; Trump said as he left the White House for a NATO summit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2157566\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2157566\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump claims media conspired to &#8220;demean&#8221; US strike on Iran<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2451549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/trump-demean-strike.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[54125,3823,4188,3634,57842],"class_list":["post-2451548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-demeaning","tag-iran","tag-media","tag-trump","tag-us-strike"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/trump-demean-strike.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2451548"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451552,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451548\/revisions\/2451552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2451549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}