{"id":214515,"date":"2025-10-15T05:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T05:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/214515\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T05:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T05:54:12","slug":"trump-slams-very-nasty-stephanopoulos-refuses-to-take-abc-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/214515\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump slams &#8216;very nasty&#8217; Stephanopoulos, refuses to take ABC questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join Fox News for access to this content<\/p>\n<p>Plus special access to select articles and other premium content with your account &#8211; free of charge.<\/p>\n<p> By entering your email and pushing continue, you are agreeing to Fox News&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/terms-of-use\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Terms of Use<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/privacy-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Privacy Policy<\/a>, which includes our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/fi-notice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Notice of Financial Incentive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please enter a valid email address.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/help.foxnews.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/23074352680475-Are-you-encountering-any-technical-challenges-while-trying-to-log-into-Fox-News-to-access-special-content\" class=\"article-gating-help\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Having trouble? Click here.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Donald Trump<\/a> blasted ABC News host George Stephanopoulos during a Tuesday meeting with Argentine President Javier Milei.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;We&#8217;ll take a couple of questions from the news, and I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll be incredibly non-hostile, and friendly, like JD went through a very \u2018friendly\u2019 interview with George Slopadopoulos,&#8221; Trump said with apparent sarcasm, making fun of Stephanopoulos\u2019 name.<\/p>\n<p>Trump went on to reference the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/trump-defamation-suit-against-abc-stephanopoulos-officially-dismissed-after-15-million-settlement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ABC lawsuit,<\/a> joking, &#8220;He was nice enough to pay me $16 million the last time we came \u2014 he had to pay $16 million to me. Which is good. It was worth it. It was worth having somebody lie. If you get $16 million, that&#8217;s good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/george-stephanopoulos-battles-jd-vance-over-tom-homan-bribery-claims-abruptly-ends-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">criticized the recent interview<\/a> Vice President JD Vance had on the Disney-owned network.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;JD had a very nasty person interviewing him, and we can&#8217;t let that happen. Just is inappropriate to cut off a highly respected Vice President of the United States, mid-sentence. I guess it&#8217;s one way to win an argument. That was the only way he was gonna win the argument. It was pretty inappropriate, I wanna tell you that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/ex-abc-news-reporter-admits-employer-biased-against-trump-due-lack-viewpoint-diversity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">EX-ABC NEWS REPORTER ADMITS EMPLOYER BIASED AGAINST TRUMP DUE TO LACK OF \u2018VIEWPOINT DIVERSITY\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/TrumpStephanopoulos.jpg\" alt=\"Trump Stephanopoulos\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump declared he will no longer take questions from ABC over how the network treated his vice president in a recent interview. (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Trump later declared that he wouldn&#8217;t take questions from &#8220;ABC fake news.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During a Sunday interview, Vance sparred with Stephanopoulos as the vice president denied border czar Tom Homan accepted a bribe and accused the ABC host of losing credibility, leading the interview to abruptly end.<\/p>\n<p>Stephanopoulos pressed Vance repeatedly on whether Homan accepted money and said Homan was &#8220;recorded on an audiotape in September 2024, an FBI surveillance tape, accepting $50,000 in cash.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t know what tape you\u2019re referring to, George. I saw media reports that Tom Homan accepted a bribe. There\u2019s no evidence of that. And here&#8217;s why fewer and fewer people watch your program and why you&#8217;re losing credibility,&#8221; Vance said. &#8220;Because you&#8217;re talking for now, five minutes with the Vice President of the United States about this story regarding Tom Homan, a story that I&#8217;ve read about, but I don&#8217;t even know the video that you&#8217;re talking about.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/trump-calls-abcs-jimmy-kimmel-support-major-illegal-campaign-contribution-democrats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">TRUMP CALLS ABC&#8217;S JIMMY KIMMEL SUPPORT &#8216;MAJOR ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION&#8217; TO DEMOCRATS<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vance-stephanopoulos-this-week.jpg\" alt=\"Vice President JD Vance and ABC host George Stephanopoulos\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Vice President JD Vance spoke with the ABC News host in a contentious interview over the weekend. (Alex Wong\/Getty Images; Heidi Gutman\/American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>After Vance suggested they move onto a different topic, Stephanopoulos\u00a0objected and proceeded to end the interview.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Peace in the Middle East? China threatening critical supply chains? Government shutdown? George S doesn\u2019t care about that. He\u2019s here to focus on the real story: a fake scandal involving Tom Homan,&#8221; Vance responded on social media after the interview.<\/p>\n<p>ABC News didn&#8217;t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/jd-vance-hand-gesture-speaking.jpg\" alt=\"Vice President JD Vance in dark suit and red tie speaking\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Vice President JD Vance argued that there were other, far more pressing and important things to discuss. (Alex Brandon\/AP Photo)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fox News&#8217; Hanna Panreck contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Join Fox News for access to this content Plus special access to select articles and other premium content&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,2490,134,41574,21845,1685,427],"class_list":["post-214515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-fox-news-media","tag-jd-vance","tag-media","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214515","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=214515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}