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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Welbert Bauyaban

BIZARRE: Please get this monster help netizens react to trump calling journalists treasonous - You Need To See This

Trump calls reporters ‘treasonous’ over the Iran war, prompting social media users to label him a ‘monster’ who needs help. (Credit: By Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America - Donald Trump, CC BY-SA 2.0,/wikimedia commons)

Donald Trump called journalists 'treasonous' on Monday during a surprise Oval Office press conference at the White House, accusing sections of the 'fake news media' of wanting Iran to win the ongoing war and prompting a wave of online backlash branding the president a 'monster' who 'desperately needs help.'

Tensions between the United States and Iran have escalated sharply in recent weeks, with the two sides trading strikes after Iran targeted commercial vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz. A fragile memorandum of understanding, which Donald Trump had welcomed just three weeks earlier as a path to 'peace and security' in the region, now appears to be unravelling amid his increasingly hostile rhetoric.

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