Trump reportedly angered by intelligence chief’s social media warning against ‘warmongers’ placing the world ‘on the brink of nuclear annihilation’

As he weighs joining Israel’s war against Iran, Donald Trump reportedly finds himself at odds with his Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, with one White House official saying that he has “just been kind of down on her in general” of late.

Trump was recently incensed, according to Politico, by Gabbard’s decision to post a three-minute video on X in the early hours of June 10 in which she warned that “political elite and warmongers” are “carelessly fomenting fear and tensions between nuclear powers,” placing the world “on the brink of nuclear annihilation.”

Trump is said to have been angered by the video, accusing Gabbard of going “off-message” and rebuking her for it in person.

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    Trump is said to have been angered by the video, accusing Gabbard of going “off-message” and rebuking her for it in person.

    “LISTEN GABBARD! We don’t do “reality” here, we do propaganda that serves my goals. Fuck America, fuck the Truth, fuck everything that isn’t ME. When you got on the Trump train the name should have told you everything, it’s the TRUMP train. We do shows, we do theater, we sell an image. What we don’t do is speak truth, only The Truth™©® got it?”

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      Eh, I wouldn’t put Gabbard and truth in one sentence though. Girl has been taking money from Assad at some point, which is like the lowest low.