Veteran ABC News correspondent Terry Moran was suspended Sunday following a late-night post on X that criticized President Trump and Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.
In the since-deleted message, Moran described both men as “world-class haters,” claiming that Trump views hatred as merely a tool for self-glorification—something he feeds off of to satisfy his ego—while Miller, he wrote, “eats his hate.”
“That’s his spiritual nourishment,” Moran wrote of Trump. “Hatreds are his spiritual nourishment,” he added of Miller.
The post, published just after midnight, drew immediate condemnation from the Trump administration. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Moran’s remarks reflected poorly on ABC and urged the network to take disciplinary action. “Hopefully this journalist will either be suspended or terminated,” Leavitt said in a Fox News interview. She added that ABC indicated privately that it would be “taking action.”
By late morning, ABC confirmed Moran had been suspended, stating that his comments violated the network’s standards. “ABC News stands for objectivity and impartiality in its news coverage and does not condone subjective personal attacks on others,” a spokesperson said.
Moran, who recently interviewed Trump in the Oval Office, has not commented further. Miller responded to the controversy, writing on X, “For decades, the privileged anchors and reporters narrating and gatekeeping our society have been radicals adopting a journalist’s pose. Terry pulled off his mask.”
