President Donald Trump unleashed on CNN star anchor Anderson Cooper in a rant over news coverage of the conflict between Iran and Israel, and the recent U.S. involvement ordered by the president.

Trump took to Truth Social on June 23 to call the “AC360” host “Allison Cooper,” while slamming what he referred to as “fake news” organizations that “would say anything different in order to try and demean, as much as possible” in their stories about U.S. strikes of Iranian nuclear sites.

In his post, Trump also slammed “Dumb Brian L. Roberts, Chairman of “Con”cast, Jonny Karl of ABC Fake News, and always, the Losers of, again, Concast’s NBC Fake News,” in reference to Comcast chairman Roberts and ABC News’ chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl.

“It never ends with the sleazebags in the Media, and that’s why their Ratings are at an ALL TIME LOW — ZERO CREDIBILITY!” Trump claimed.

In the run up to the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump previously referred to Cooper as “Allison” at a Michigan campaign rally, according to The New York Times and The Associated Press, and on Truth Social.

Anderson Cooper expresses ‘regret’ for comparing Trump to ‘obese turtle’

Public Notice newsletter writer Aaron Rupar, a popular voice in liberal politics, decried Trump’s comments as “homophobic” in an X post.

President Donald Trump is again referring to CNN anchor Anderson Cooper as “Allison,” misgendering a star of the network that remains a source of frequent ire for the president.

Cooper is openly gay. A spokesperson for Cooper at CNN told USA TODAY that they have “no comment and nothing to add.”

Anderson Cooper evacuated live on-air while reporting in Israel

Cooper has been a central part of CNN’s Israel-Iran coverage. On Monday, Cooper was forced to evacuate while filming live June 23 in Tel Aviv after an alarm warned of an upcoming missile launch from Iran.

Anderson Cooper evacuates Israeli hotel on camera after Iranian missile alarms

In a video “Anderson Cooper 360°” shared on X, the journalist and in-person correspondents evacuated their filming location while broadcasting from a hotel balcony in Israel early Monday, June 23, local time.

“So these are the alerts that go out on all of our phones when you’re in Israel,” Cooper said of the alert alongside colleague Clarissa Ward, CNN’s chief international correspondent. “It’s a 10-minute warning of incoming missiles or something incoming from Iran. So now the location we’re in has a verbal alarm telling people to go down into bomb shelters.”

Anderson Cooper previously apologized for Donald Trump comment

The drama between Trump and Cooper includes an incident from the president’s first term, when the “All There Is” podcast host admitted that he was disappointed in himself for comparing Trump to an “obese turtle” during coverage of the 2020 presidential election.

“I should say that I regret using those words because that’s not the person I really want to be,” Cooper said Nov. 7, 2020.

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Cooper made the comment after Trump wrongly claimed victory in the 2020 race, Cooper raised eyebrows for his own controversial comments.

“That is the most powerful person in the world. And we see him like an obese turtle on his back flailing in the hot sun, realizing his time is over,” Cooper said live on-air on CNN on Nov. 5, 2020.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: ‘Allison Cooper’: Trump rants over CNN’s Anderson Cooper

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