Kristen Welker watched Donald Trump walk out of her own interview in June.
Now Welker is drawing fresh fire from Trump after commenting on his midterm endorsement record this week.
This time Trump says he is calling in the Federal Communications Commission over what she said on air.
Welker Calls a Historic Win Streak Mixed Results
On NBC, Welker described Trump's 2026 midterm primary endorsements as producing "mixed results."
Trump did not let that sit.
He fired back on Truth Social, branding her the "Unpopular 'Hostess'" of what he called "Meet the Fake Press."
Then he laid out the numbers himself.
Trump says he ran 100 percent in Senate primaries, roughly 98 percent in House primaries, and called it "the strongest Endorsement in the History of Politics."
He pointed to Darline Graham's Senate primary win in South Carolina and Mike Mazzei's win in the Oklahoma governor's race as proof.
Fox News ran its own independent count and landed close to Trump's version, not Welker's.
Twenty-four wins in twenty-four Senate primaries, 214 wins out of 218 House primaries, and 16 of 21 governor picks.
"If it were not, I would be the first to admit it," Trump wrote.
Even the more skeptical media tallies put his overall success rate at 96 percent through the end of primary season, with a dozen losses out of more than 300 endorsed races.
That is not the picture two words on a Sunday show painted for a national audience.
Trump Orders NBC's Anchor Reported to the FCC
Trump did not stop at a Truth Social post.
He announced he is reporting Welker directly to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.
"Because of this purposeful inaccuracy, she will be reported to the FCC for rebuke or punishment," Trump wrote.
He said he hopes Carr "will take this Threat to our Country very seriously."
NBC circled the wagons fast.
A network spokesperson said Welker "is one of the best in the business" and that NBC stands by her.
That is the same network that watched its own interview with Trump fall apart on camera in June.
He stood up and walked out mid-conversation rather than keep answering Welker's questions that day.
Two blowups with the same anchor in three months is not bad luck.
It is a pattern NBC keeps choosing to repeat.
Why Carr's FCC Cannot Just Pull NBC's License
What gets me about this one is a network acting stunned that calling a near-perfect endorsement run "mixed" would draw fire, when every producer in that building knows exactly what Trump's record actually is.
Here is the legal reality Trump's post glosses over.
The FCC does not license networks like NBC.
It licenses individual local stations, one call sign at a time, and pulling one takes years of hearings plus proof of deliberate "news distortion" – not just an anchor picking the wrong two words on a Sunday show.
This is not the first time Trump and Carr have gone after network coverage this year.
Back in March, Carr warned ABC, NBC, and CBS their licenses were on the line over how they covered the Iran conflict, and Trump backed him to the hilt.
It is not even the first time he has aimed the FCC at NBC specifically.
Trump called for NBC's license to be pulled outright last year, long before Welker ever said the words "mixed results."
Welker's "mixed results" line will not cost her a job or NBC a license anytime soon.
But it already cost NBC something else: a president who no longer treats "one of the best in the business" as a compliment, and a base watching closely to see which side blinks first.
Sources:
- Teri Christoph, "Trump Shreds Welker Over Midterm Endorsement Record," RedState, August 30, 2026.
- Matt Margolis, "Trump Nukes NBC's Kristen Welker Again," PJ Media, August 30, 2026.
- CJ Womack, "Trump Vows to Report NBC Anchor Kristen Welker to FCC Over 'Purposeful Inaccuracy' on Endorsements," Fox News, August 30, 2026.
- Christian Datoc and Mabinty Quarshie, "Here Are the Trump-Backed Republicans Who Have Lost in 2026," Washington Examiner, August 19, 2026.
