Last Friday, President Trump made time during his trip to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin for an extended sit-down interview with NBC's Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker, but was derailed several times by pounding rain on the roof of the facility, heated exchanges, and a premature ending as Trump abruptly walked out because he was tired of dealing with such a "crooked" network. Welker pressed Trump on the war with Iran, and asked if he broke his promise of no new wars, which grew a bit confrontational. TRUMP: No. I had to stop a country, very powerful, very dangerous country, from having a nuclear weapon because they’d use it. They’d blow up the world. They’d blow up the Middle East. They’d blow up Israel. They’d come here. They’d blow up Europe. They’re nuts, okay?...It’s America first. I’m doing our country a service. (....) WELKER: So, you’re saying you didn’t break your promise. And yet, Mr. President, in your first term, you held to that promise, and it was so fundamental to who you were as a candidate, to a first-term president. What changed? Because you insisted “no new wars.” TRUMP: Well, well. First of all, I didn’t guarantee no war. Why would I have built the strongest military in the world? I built our military. I inherited a terrible military. We had no equipment. We had nothing. I built a tremendous military. Biden gave a lot of it away, but it’s still a relatively small portion compared to what I built. WELKER: But you said it over and over again, Mr. President. TRUMP: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Why would I build a military — Now, I didn’t want to use this, but I’m doing you and everybody else a big favor....I know you, you’re a big liberal, a big progressive. WELKER: No! TRUMP: But we were -- WELKER: I'm just a journalist. Things got even more heated during Welker's questioning of Trump on his anti-weaponization fund. TRUMP: I love the idea, because people like you, the fake, dirty press, the crooked press, people like stupid Biden, he’s not smart enough to know what’s going on, but people that surrounded him, surrounded his beautiful Resolute Desk in the Office, what they did to the lives of people, they destroyed people. They sent people to jail who did nothing wrong. WELKER: All right, this is -- just to be very clear, there’s no evidence of what you’re saying. TRUMP: There’s a lot of evidence. WELKER: Let me ask about Todd Blanche. TRUMP: Listen – listen to me – listen to me. WELKER: Let’s talk about Todd Blanche. TRUMP: There’s tremendous evidence. There’s nothing but evidence. WELKER: Well, it’s not been presented in a court of a [sic] law. Trump then turned to the legitimacy of elections, specifically how slowly it has taken to count votes in California: Listen to me, the election was rigged. It was a dirty election....And it’s happening again right now in California. Welker wouldn't let that go unchallenged, and that led to the end. TRUMP: [T]hey're cheating on the election. WELKER: There's -- what? Do you have evidence to support that? TRUMP: It's -- all I have to do is look. All I have to do is look. WELKER: But that’s not evidence. TRUMP: And I listen. And I listen to people. And let’s see what happens. WELKER: But sir, that’s not evidence. Welker told Trump (and, by extension, anyone else watching) to stop asking questions and refused to acknowledge the frustration: "That’s how they count the votes in California. State and local officials acknowledge they are slow...[T]hey're urging the votes to be counted quickly. That's how they vote in California!" Trump replied amid Welker's pushback with the obvious: "Do you think it’s appropriate that they have an election and five days later, they’re nowhere close to picking a winner?" Matters further devolved after the President said California officials are "crooked" and "the press is crooked," Meet the Press included. Take notice of the allusion to negative network coverage, a homage to the work our Rich Noyes with his blockbuster negative Trump studies: TRUMP: They’re crooked just like you’re crooked, your press is crooked. And Meet the Press is crooked. WELKER: To be fair, I’m not crooked. But let’s continue. TRUMP: Really? Well, you play right into their hands then. WELKER: Let's continued. TRUMP: You’re either crooked or you’re stupid. WELKER: Let's continue. TRUMP: You play right into their hands with this stuff. You know that these elections are rigged. Your network knows that they’re rigged. Do you know that I won an election in a landslide, and I got 94% bad press.  WELKER: But Mr. President -- TRUMP: You know why I got that? WELKER: -- you've never presented -- TRUMP: Because you have no credibility. WELKER: -- evidence it was rigged. Let’s keep talking about, I want to talk about Todd Blanche. TRUMP: You have more evidence, there’s more evidence than ever presented. WELKER: Let’s talk about-- TRUMP: Your elections in this country – WELKER: -- you went to court. TRUMP: -- we're like a Third World country. Trump then doubled down on his frustrations with the electoral system and ended the interview, but not without saying NBC is "crooked" along with "ABC, and CBS, and CNN." "You’re a one-sided crooked network. Let’s call it quits because I’ve had enough. Thank you, darling. Have a good time," Trump declared. Welker then pleaded, but to no avail, wanting Trump and the rest of us to feel bad for her supposedly arduous journey (and the interview ending after 50 minutes, far more time than most journalists could ever dream of having to interview any president): WELKER: Mr. President, let’s – please, I traveled all the way to Wisconsin. TRUMP: I’ve sat in the rain with you -- WELKER: I traveled all -- I know. I traveled all the way -- TRUMP: I sat in the rain with you for an hour. WELKER: – to Wisconsin. TRUMP: On and off in the rain, and I’ve given you enough time. You ought to straighten out your press, because you know what? WELKER: Mr. President – TRUMP: A country can never be great with a dishonest press. Come on. Let’s go. WELKER: -- we traveled all -- listen. We traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview. Welker then informed her audience that she had since spoken with Trump. I spoke with President Trump on Saturday, and we both acknowledged the complications during the interview posed by the rain. He agreed to sit down with me for another Meet the Press interview. Not sure what the rain had to do with Trump walking out. He made his feelings very clear. He said, Meet the Press is crooked."  Did they both acknowledge that?