June 25, 2025.

At the Hague, a city in the Netherlands, today, for a summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO,

Trump showed that he cannot let go of the intelligence assessment that his military strikes against Iran had set back Iran's nuclear ambitions only by a few months.

He appears determined to convince Americans that he has solved the problem of Iran's nuclear ambitions overnight.

It's gone for years, years, he said.

And then, turning to the news outlets that reported the early conclusions of Defense Intelligence

Agency, or DIA, the intelligence arm of the Pentagon, that the hits delayed

production of a nuclear weapon by only a few months,

he said,

CNN is scum, MSDNC is scum, the New York Times is scum,

they're bad people, they're sick,

and what they've done is they've tried to make this unbelievable victory into something less.

Trump insisted that the U.S. hits caused total obliteration. to make this unbelievable victory into something less.

Trump insisted that the U.S. hits caused total obliteration.

He claimed he did not want the recognition of the effectiveness of the hits for himself, but rather for the military.

Trump equated the strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities with the U.S. bombing of the Japanese

cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegesith told reporters at the NATO summit that the FBI had launched

a criminal investigation into who had leaked the DIA report, complaining that

CNN and others are trying to spin it to make the president look bad when this was an overwhelming

success. Later in the morning, Trump's social media account posted that CNN should fire Natasha

Bertrand, one of the CNN journalists who broke the

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