Trump once more fumes at former MAGA trustworthy in prolonged rant together with ‘sleazebag’ former counterterrorism chief Joe Kent | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump has lashed out at conservative figures in a Truth Social rant on Thursday, slamming a bunch of former allies within the right-wing media and name-checking Joe Kent, the Trump administration counterterrorism chief who resigned in March and criticized the Iran battle.

“He was really a SLEAZEBAG, and some would say, on top of it all, A LEAKER!” Trump wrote. “I don’t know whether or not that was true, but next time, NO MORE MR. NICE GUY! Kent is a LOSER, just like Tucker [Carlson]Candace [Owens]Megyn [Kelly] and the rest of them are LOSERS.”

Trump additionally attacked the right-wing broadcasters final week in an analogous rant, writing, “They think it is wonderful for Iran, the Number One State Sponsor of Terror, to have a Nuclear Weapon — Because they have one thing in common, Low IQs.”

In his Thursday submit, President Trump claimed he gave Kent the job main the National Counterterrorism Center in sympathy, after the previous particular forces operative was defeated in a number of congressional campaigns and misplaced his spouse to an ISIS assault in Syria.

Trump wrote on Truth Social that he met Kent on the dignified switch ceremony at a navy base in Delaware through which her stays have been returned to the U.S.

“While I didn’t know him other than our brief Dover encounter, but feeling sorry for him after the two Election losses, I told my people, ‘Hire him for the White House. Give him a job, make him feel good, he lost his wife and two Elections,’” Trump wrote. “They did so and, while I rarely saw him, I certainly didn’t expect disloyalty, but that’s what I got.”

The Independent has contacted Kent for remark.

The former official has vocally criticized the battle since resigning.

“President Trump is sending more military power to the Middle East as Iran rejects our initial peace offers—setting the escalation trap,” he wrote on X on Wednesday, including, “We must learn from our past and recognize when it is time to cut our losses and walk away. In the end, working to restore order will strengthen America far more than any military action ever could.”

Trump wasn’t the one administration official fuming about Iran on Thursday.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth berated reporters on the Pentagon for what he noticed as unfairly unfavorable protection of the battle.

“I just can’t help but notice the endless stream of garbage, the relentlessly negative coverage you cannot resist pedaling, despite the historic and important success of this effort and the success of our troops,” he mentioned. “Sometimes it’s hard to figure out what side some of you are actually on — it’s incredibly unpatriotic.”

Throughout Thursday afternoon, Trump railed on-line in opposition to his critics, bashing a Washington federal decide for halting his ballroom undertaking on the White House and accusing New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani of “destroying” the town along with his tax insurance policies. The males had beforehand struck up a surprisingly pleasant rapport.