President Donald Trump on Wednesday criticized media coverage of his upcoming meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, defending the planned summit and saying outlets are quoting “fired losers and really dumb people” like his first-term national security adviser John Bolton.

“Very unfair media is at work on my meeting with Putin. Constantly quoting fired losers and really dumb people like John Bolton, who just said that, even though the meeting is on American soil, ‘Putin has already won,'” Trump posted on his Truth Social account. “What’s that all about?”

He further accused the “Fake News” of “working overtime.”

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