Trump Slams ABC News Reporter: 'The Bombing That You Showed On TV Took Place in Kentucky!'

.@jonkarl asks @realDonaldTrump if he gave Turkey "the green light" to attack the Kurds

"When you ask a question like that, it’s very deceptive," Trump said

"Almost as deceptive as you (ABC) showing all the bombings in Syria and it turns out the bombing took place in Kentucky." pic.twitter.com/akgb33QfU5

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) October 16, 2019

ABC News chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl asked the president if he regrets giving Turkish Recep Tayyip President Erdogan the “green light” to attack in Syria.

“I didn’t give him the green light… when you ask a question like that, it’s very deceptive, Jon, it’s almost as deceptive as you showing all of the bombings taking place in Syria and it turned out the bombing that you showed on television took place in Kentucky,” Trump fired back.

ABC aired footage on “World News Tonight” and “Good Morning America” that the network obtained from a source on Sunday night and Monday morning. ABC News framed it as battlefield video, when, in fact, it appears to be from a night gun demonstration at the Knob Creek Gun Range in West Point, Kentucky.

Wow! ABC News is trying to pass gun range videos as combat footage from Syria pic.twitter.com/zfTWtwwSfZ

— Wojciech Pawelczyk 🇵🇱🇺🇸 (@PolishPatriotTM) October 14, 2019

The footage first aired on Sunday's "World News Tonight" as anchor Tom Llamas claimed it showed a Turkish attack on a group of Kurdish civilians in a Syrian border town. The chyron beneath the video read: "CRISIS IN SYRIA. ISIS prisoners escape as death toll rises in attack."

Trump told Karl that he wasn’t sure if ABC had apologized for the gaffe, calling it a “terrible thing.”

“It was in Kentucky, it wasn’t in Syria, so I don’t know what you’re going to do about that,” Trump said. “I think ABC owes an apology.”

A big scandal at @ABC News. They got caught using really gruesome FAKE footage of the Turks bombing in Syria. A real disgrace. Tomorrow they will ask softball questions to Sleepy Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, like why did Ukraine & China pay you millions when you knew nothing? Payoff?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 15, 2019

FAKE NEWS! pic.twitter.com/ta8ii8yetP

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 16, 2019