Trump Comeback to HuffPost Reporter Goes Viral: 'No Wonder - I Thought They Died'

President Donald Trump delivered a hilarious jab at a Huffington Post reporter, joking that he wasn’t even aware the left-leaning publication was still operational.

The amusing exchange took place Sunday aboard Air Force One as Trump was traveling to Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans.

During a mid-flight press interaction, anti-Trump journalist S.V. Date asked: “The vice president suggested that if the Supreme Court rules in a way that you don’t like, they could just enforce it by themselves. Do you agree with that?”

Trump replied, “I don’t know even what you’re talking about. Neither do you. Who are you with?”

“HuffPost, sir,” Date responded.

“Oh, no wonder. I thought they died,” the president quipped.

“Are they still around? I haven’t read them in years. I thought they died.”

Just last month, Huffington Post announced it was laying off 30 employees—approximately 23 percent of its newsroom staff—citing “ongoing and growing challenges to our business.”

Like much of the mainstream media, S.V. Date positions himself as a “journalist” while functioning as a left-wing activist.

His pinned post on X bluntly states: “As a journalist, it IS my job to warn you that if we vote Donald Trump back into office, it may be the last vote we ever cast.”

The post includes a link to Date’s 2021 anti-Trump book, “The Useful Idiot: How Donald Trump Killed the Republican Party with Racism, the Rest of Us with Coronavirus, And Why We Aren’t Done With Him Yet.”

Like many in the media suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, Date has leveraged his disdain for Trump for financial gain.

Many X users reacted positively to Trump’s quick-witted response to the HuffPost reporter.

Date’s question stemmed from a statement Vice President J.D. Vance shared Sunday on X, explaining that the judicial branch, as a co-equal branch of the federal government, does not have authority over the executive branch.

“If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal,” Vance wrote. “If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that’s also illegal.

“Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.”

Since Trump took office three weeks ago, numerous judges have moved to block or delay several of his executive orders.

So far, more than three dozen federal lawsuits have been filed nationwide, challenging his executive actions.

Despite these legal hurdles, Trump’s administration has made significant progress in swiftly implementing his America First agenda.

With this strong momentum, the hope is that the administration will continue pushing forward over the next four years to truly make America great again.