Donald Trump stormed out of an interview with Piers Morgan after he was pressed about his false claim that the election was stolen.
Trump called Morgan a “fool” for telling him to his face that he lost the election.
“I think I’m a very honest man … much more honest than you, actually,” Trump told Morgan.
“Really?” Morgan asked.
“Yeah,” Trump responded.
When Morgan told him that the 2020 election was “free and fair,” Trump responded: “Only a fool would say that.”
“You think I’m a fool?” Morgan shot back.
“I do now, yeah,” Trump responded.
Morgan noted that after more than a year Trump and his supporters still “haven’t produced the hard evidence” to support their claim that the election was stolen. This led to Trump throwing more insults his way.
“I don’t think you’re real,” Trump fumed before telling Morgan he was “very dishonest.” The clip ended with Trump storming off shouting “turn the camera off.”
“Very dishonest,” he repeated while fleeing.
In a New York Post op-ed, Morgan said the interview took a turn when he brought up Trump’s false claims about the election and that he blamed Trump for the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot because he refused to admit defeat.
“Then you’re a fool! And you haven’t studied,” Trump responded.
Morgan said Trump called him a fool six times throughout the interview.
“He was back to the furious Trump he’d been in his office and branded me a fool six more times, in between calling Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell ‘stupid’, and his former vice-president Mike Pence ‘foolish and weak,’” Morgan wrote. “Our collective crime was that none of us agree he had the election stolen.”
The full interview is set to air on April 25 on Morgan’s new show “Piers Morgan Uncensored”
