Fireworks were flying in the Oval Office Monday afternoon as President Trump met with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, but it was nothing at all like the time Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, used a White House photo op to escalate tensions with the administration. Instead, Trump, Bukele and a host of Trump administration officials teamed up to destroy the false media narrative surrounding

Flanked by their respective national security teams, Trump and Bukele laid down some hard truth’s for CNN’s Kaitlan Collins—or, as Trump called her, “a very low-rated anchor”—after she asked President Trump if he’d be seeking Bukele’s help in returning the “mistakenly deported” Abrego Garcia to the U.S. The question kicked off a whip around of Trump administration officials lighting into the media for failing to properly cover the story of an illegal being returned to his home country and the associated judicial rulings. 

First up was Attorney General Pam Bondi, who alerted Kaitlan Collins to the fact that, “First and foremost, he was in our country illegally.” Then came the legal truths: “In 2019, two courts, an immigration court and an appellate immigration court, ruled he was a member of MS-13, and he was illegally in our country.” Bondi noted that is was now up to El Salvador, not the United States, to decide if they want to return him, stating that the U.S. would help “facilitate” that return by providing an airplane.