Chuck Todd and the other journalists at NBC are openly fuming that Donald Trump continues to call out the biased coverage of his administration. During Thursday’s press conference, an angry Todd tweeted, “This not a laughing matter. I'm sorry, delegitimizing the press is un-American.”

He later whined, “Press bashing may feel good to folks but when it's done by people in power, it's corrosive. Take off your partisan hats for a second.” During live coverage, Lester Holt chided, “It was contentious. It was ugly at moments and we haven't seen anything like it.”

Talking to Holt, Todd declared, “Look, this is a president that appears to be in a bunker mentality right now, whatever that is.”

Finally, the journalist went back to a cliche, comparing Trump to Nixon during Watergate:

A lot of this press conference had to do with the President airing grievances about the press and we've got to remember what this is. It's a political tactic. It's one that's a familar one, but he is going at it in a way we haven't seen a president do since Nixon and those early ‘70s.

On Wednesday, disgraced journalist Dan Rather insisted that Trump’s “lies” could be bigger than Watergate.

A partial transcript of NBC’s post-press conference coverage is below:

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