David Muir famously nabbed Donald Trump’s first-ever interview as president again in 2017, so it could have come as a shock to some that when the two-time president sat down with the outlet in April 2025, it wasn’t the “ABC World Information Tonight” anchor who carried out the dialog. Nonetheless, in gentle of the 2’s beef, it type of made sense that Trump spoke to Terry Moran as a substitute.

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A lot of the stress between Trump and Muir stems from the 2024 ABC Information presidential debate. Muir memorably fact-checked the Republican candidate on his claims about migrants in Springfield, Ohio, consuming folks’s pets, and did not again down when the presidential hopeful interrupted. In response to Trump’s claims that he’d heard in regards to the claims from TV stories, Muir responded with a curt, “I am not taking this from tv. I am taking it from town supervisor.”

Trump did not cover the truth that he was upset by Muir’s corrections. In an interview on “Gutfeld!” he complained that all the things he’d mentioned had been factual and that he’d been unfairly corrected. He additionally shared that the rationale that he did not struggle again on the spot was as a result of he was making an attempt to dwell in his Winston Churchill period and be an “elegant debater.” As such, he defined, he opted to not assault Muir or anybody else in attendance. Elegant, certainly. Nonetheless, Trump then mentioned he regretted that, so we will go forward and say that disqualified him altogether. What’s extra, in the identical “Gutfeld!” interview, Trump made a quite pointed assault on Muir’s look. “His hair was higher 5 years in the past … however that occurs with the clock,” he quipped. Fortunately for Trump, his hair solely began to flop in his 70s. Certain, it has been picked on for many years — however consistency, proper? 

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It bears mentioning that within the wake of his 2017 interview with Donald Trump, David Muir had pretty well mannered issues to say in regards to the then-first-time president on “Jimmy Kimmel Dwell.” The truth is, he even mused that Trump seemingly needed to be requested the powerful questions. “I wasn’t there to create a cushty scenario, a cushty second with the president. Actually, if you happen to ask President Trump, I do not assume he would say he would count on that both,” Muir mentioned. Muir additionally instructed Kimmel that even after issues acquired barely heated, Trump had nonetheless given the White Home tour as deliberate — an act he deemed “gracious.” Would not Winston Churchill be proud? 

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Quick-forward to the aftermath of the 2024 ABC Information presidential debate, and Trump was calling for Muir to be fired, referring to him and his co-moderator Linsey Davis as “light-weight ‘anchors.'” He additionally mentioned their fact-checking tarnished the community’s status. 

In gentle of all of the animosity, like we mentioned, we’re not precisely shocked that Muir wasn’t requested to interview Trump in April 2025. In response to sources who spoke with Web page Six, there had been conversations to the impact that neither Muir nor George Stephanopoulos could be welcome to talk with the president. Sadly for Trump, talking to ABC’s senior nationwide correspondent did not imply he prevented pushback … and sadly for Terry Moran, Trump had given up all pretenses of magnificence by the point of their dialog. Exhibit A: Trump telling Moran, “I picked you as a result of, frankly, I’ve by no means heard of you … however you are not being very good.” Add that to the pile of uncomfortable confrontations between Donald Trump and reporters – we guess. 

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