Depicted is a POLITICO screen grab from the Dec. 22 edition of NBC's "Nightly News with Lester Holt." | POLITICO Screen grab Trump claims NBC 'purposely' misquoted nuclear comments

President-elect Donald Trump claimed Saturday that NBC News “purposely” misquoted his call for an expansion of the U.S. nuclear program last week, despite reports to the contrary.

Trump on Thursday said the United States “must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.” Saturday he accused NBC of intentionally leaving out the latter, more measure portion of his statements.


“[email protected] purposely left out this part of my nuclear qoute: ‘until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.’ Dishonest!” the president-elect tweeted Saturday afternoon.

Trump did not specify when NBC supposedly left out a portion of his comments.

NBC News’ initial report covering Trump’s comments on nuclear expansion, however, cited his comments in full. And the Thursday broadcast of NBC’s “Nightly News with Lester Holt” displayed his comments in their entirety.

Trump’s claim of dishonesty in media coverage has been a calling card of his ascendance to the White House. Since winning the presidency, Trump has repeatedly attacked the media, broadly accusing them of inciting violence against him, singling out individual reporters and blasting the news media as “crooked.”

The president-elect also took to social media less than an hour later to repeat his criticism of the United States’ decision not to veto a United Nation Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements. The United States abstained, allowing the matter to pass by a margin of 14-0.

“The big loss yesterday for Israel in the United Nations will make it much harder to negotiate peace,” Trump tweeted. “Too bad, but we will get it done anyway!”

The big loss yesterday for Israel in the United Nations will make it much harder to negotiate peace.Too bad, but we will get it done anyway! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 24, 2016





Trump stated his opposition to the Obama administration’s decision Friday, tweeting that “as to the U.N., things will be different after Jan. 20th,” the date of his inauguration.