It’s not every day the President of the United States calls a reporter “stupid” to her face on live TV so you know this one asked a really dumb question. The great thing about President Trump is he isn’t afraid to call out reporters who waste everyone’s time as he did the other day with CBS News correspondent Nancy Cordes.
During a press gaggle, President Trump was asked by Cordes a question so dripping in media gaslighting it practically needed a mop: Why is it President Biden’s fault that an Afghan terrorist shot two U.S. National Guardsmen?
Trump, never one to tiptoe around idiocy, fired back: “Because they let him in. Are you stupid? Are you a stupid person? Because they came in on a plane along with thousands of other people that shouldn’t be here.”
Bang. No teleprompters, no staffers whispering in his earpiece, just Trump doing what the media hates — telling the truth out loud.
Let’s unpack this. The terrorist in question, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, reportedly opened fire on two National Guardsmen. He was vetted, we’re told, by both the FBI and Homeland Security before being ushered into the United States during Biden’s botched Afghan refugee debacle. You remember that, right? The great Saigon cosplay of 2021, when Biden’s State Department left billions in equipment behind and flew thousands of unvetted Afghans into the country — all while leaving actual American citizens stranded.
Now, we’re watching the consequences play out in real time. But somehow, in the elite media’s upside-down world, it’s Trump’s job to explain why Biden’s open-door policy turned out to be a disaster. And when he does, he’s attacked not for what he says — but for how he says it.
Let’s be real. The only thing more dangerous than Rahmanullah Lakanwal running loose in America is the mainstream media running cover for the people who let him in.
Nancy Cordes’s question wasn’t journalism; it was a defense attorney’s opening statement for the Biden administration. Her tone wasn’t inquisitive — it was incredulous. Like she couldn’t *believe* anyone would dare pin this on the guy who rolled out the red carpet for tens of thousands of refugees without even bothering to check if they had a thing for shooting at soldiers.
Here’s a thought: Maybe the problem isn’t Trump’s tone. Maybe the problem is a press so ideologically captured, they can’t tell the difference between a refugee and a radical. They can’t admit Biden’s policies have consequences, because doing so would mean admitting Trump was right all along — about borders, about vetting, and about national security.
But don’t expect CBS to run a segment titled “Trump Was Right.” No, they’ll keep replaying his “Are you stupid?” line, hoping to make it about rudeness instead of recklessness. Because if they talked about the actual policy failure, then they’d have to answer for their own role in selling it to the American people.
Let’s not forget, this is the same media that called Trump a racist for wanting to ban travel from terror hotbeds. The same journalists who called it “xenophobic” to prioritize American safety over political correctness. Now they’re shocked — shocked! — that one of the people they welcomed with open arms turned out to be a ticking time bomb.
Here’s the real question: How many more Rahmanullahs are out there, quietly blending in, waiting for an opportunity?
And will the media still be asking “why is this Biden’s fault” when the next one strikes?