{"id":148815,"date":"2025-09-17T03:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T03:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/148815\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T03:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T03:07:10","slug":"im-from-the-australian-broadcasting-corporation-four-corners-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/148815\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Four Corners program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tDonald Trump has admonished the ABC&#8217;s Global Affairs Editor John Lyons saying he is &#8220;hurting Australia&#8221; with his line of questions.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has admonished the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-09-17\/donald-trump-john-lyons-exchange-before-anthony-albanese-meeting\/105781624\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC\u2019s Global Affairs Editor<\/a> John Lyons during a bizarre exchange on the White House lawn.<\/p>\n<p>Washington-based Lyons asked the US president several questions about his business dealings, including: \u201cIs it appropriate, President Trump, that a president in office should be engaged in so much business activity?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I\u2019m really not. My kids are running the business. You know what the activity \u2014 where are you from?\u201d Trump replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Four Corners program,\u201d said Lyons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, the Australian \u2014 you\u2019re hurting Australia,\u201d trump told him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my opinion, you are hurting Australia very much right now, and they want to get along with me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, your leader is coming over to see me very soon. I\u2019m going to tell him about you. You set a very bad tone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tvtonight.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/John_Lyons_ABC_Global_Affairs_Editor.jpeg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-461989\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/John_Lyons_ABC_Global_Affairs_Editor.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Lyons attempted to ask a follow-up question, Mr Trump told him: \u201cQuiet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lyons\u2019s questions were part of an investigation by Four Corners program into Trump\u2019s business activities since his return to the presidency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">ABC News director Justin Stevens said Lyons had the broadcaster\u2019s full support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">\u201cJohn Lyons is a highly awarded journalist and one of the most experienced and respected reporters in Australia,\u201d Mr Stevens said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">\u201cHis job is to ask questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@POTUS<\/a> smacks down a rude foreign Fake News loser (many such cases): \u201cQuiet.\u201d \ud83e\udd23 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q5zdQKgN5Z\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Q5zdQKgN5Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/1967956300241031481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 16, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump has admonished the ABC&#8217;s Global Affairs Editor John Lyons saying he is &#8220;hurting Australia&#8221; with his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-148815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}