Overview

• President Trump interrupted Politico’s Dasha Burns during a 25‑minute press gaggle aboard Air Force One and dismissed the outlet as “fake news.”
• Burns, Politico’s White House Bureau Chief and a former NBC correspondent, had begun asking about the economic impact of the planned tariff increase on China.
• The administration’s 100% tariff is scheduled to take effect on November 1, with Trump defending it as a response to China’s restrictions on rare earth exports.
• The exchange occurred as Trump flew to Tel Aviv to oversee the first phase of an Israel–Hamas arrangement, and he voiced optimism that about 20 hostages could be released earlier than expected.
• Conservative media and social accounts quickly amplified clips of the moment, framing it as another clash between Trump and legacy news outlets.