Trump pressures journalist to accept doctored photo as real: ‘Why don’t you just say yes?’

<p>President lashed out at Terry Moran in tense TV interview, which included questions about deportations and tariffs</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/apr/30/donald-trump-100-days-michigan-rally-tariffs-ukraine-mandelson-us-politics-live-updates">US politics live – latest updates</a></li></ul><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</a> lashed out at an ABC journalist in a tense TV interview to mark 100 days of his second term in office, in which among other confrontations he angrily pushed correspondent Terry Moran to agree with him that a doctored photo was actually real, telling him: “Why don’t you just say yes.”</p><p>The 40-minute interview in the Oval Office veered off course when Moran pressed Trump on the case of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/kilmar-abrego-garcia">Kilmar Ábrego García</a>, a Salvadorian man living in Maryland who was deported despite a protective court order. When Moran pointed out that the supreme court had ordered García’s return to the US, and suggested Trump had the power to comply by making a single phone call, the president bristled.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/30/trump-abc-news-terry-moran">Continue reading...</a>