Trump blasts New York Times, CNN for 'seditious' coverage of Iran war

"I'm negotiating a deal with Iran. And every week, every three days, they put in a thing that the war should stop. And the people ask me, how the hell do you negotiate like that? You're destroying them," Trump said to reporters in the Oval Office. "Think of it - we militarily decapitated the country, and every day I read about how well they're doing militarily. They have nothing left. They're done."

Trump joked that the Iranian regime is "sitting in a cave" and how "everyone's dead around them" and reading that they're "winning the war."

"It's so sad," he lamented.

"Before they landed, CNN came out with a report that maybe the damage wasn't that great. The damage was far greater than we said. It was obliteration," Trump told reporters.

"And the reason I took such - I was angry about it because it was disrespectful to those pilots and those incredible people, including the people that maintained the planes," he added.

The New York Times did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's requests for comment. A spokesperson for CNN declined to comment.