60 Minutes anchor sparks outrage after ‘unhinged’ rant towards Donald Trump

60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley sparks outrage over fiery rant towards Trump

“Your nation wants you — the nation that has given you a lot is looking you, the category of 2025, your nation wants you and it wants you right now,” Pelley stated whereas talking on the North Carolina college. 

Pelley additional stated, “This morning our sacred rule of regulation is beneath assault,” including that journalism, universities, and freedom of speech are additionally “beneath assault.” “Insidious concern is reaching all through colleges, our companies, our houses and into our personal ideas,” he went on.

The 67-year-old then highlighted the “concern to talk to America.” “If our authorities is, in Lincoln’s phrase ‘of the folks, by the folks, for the folks,’ then why are we afraid to talk? Ignorance works for energy,” he continued. 

“Energy can change the definition of the phrases we used to explain actuality. That is an previous playbook, my mates. There may be nothing new on this,” Pelley added. The CBS Information reporter’s speech was met with extreme criticism on-line, with netizens calling it “unhinged” and “offended.”

One X consumer wrote, “Scott Pelley raged at Trump in offended, unhinged graduation handle at Wake Forest…as he speaks brazenly and freely in America,” including, “This self-important, sermonizing propagandist is what passes for a legacy media ‘journalist.’”

In the meantime, Curtis Houck, Information Busters managing editor wrote on X, “Pompous CBS journalist Scott Pelley closed his graduation handle at Wake Forest by telling graduates they “are the fierce defenders of democracy, the seekers of reality,” and “the vanguard towards ignorance” that’s taken over the nation (i.e. Trump).”