President Trump called into CNBC’s Squawk Box Tuesday morning—and let’s just say, it didn’t take long for him to hijack the segment in classic Trump fashion.
Host Joe Kernen attempted a soft-glove jab, tossing out a compliment with a qualifier about Trump’s massive Texas vote count. But Trump wasn’t in the mood for hedging. The moment Kernen tried to pivot mid-sentence, Trump shut it down—hard.
“You did get the highest number of votes in Texas. So that’s true but when—” Kernen began, before Trump cut him off: “I did. You don’t have to say anything more, Joe!”
Kernen, chuckling and visibly thrown, tried to recover. “I got to say this—”
“No! Don’t say anything more. Don’t qualify it,” Trump fired back. “I got the highest number of votes in the history of Texas.”
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It was unscripted, unfiltered, and utterly Trump. Kernen, laughing, simply replied, “You did… I’m moving on.”
What we saw wasn’t just political theater—it was a reminder that Trump doesn’t need media approval to validate his wins. He doesn’t play the D.C. media game. He sets the tone, owns the room, and walks away with the headline.
In the Biden era, media spin ran unchecked. Under Trump, it gets fact-checked in real time—by the President himself. And that, folks, is what leadership without a filter looks like.