Chuck Todd’s claim Trump caused his tires to get slashed gives major ‘Smollett’ vibes

Chuck Todd bizarrely claimed that he got his tires slashed as a direct result of President Donald Trump calling him out.

Trump does not mince words, and when it comes to reporters who use their positions to twist facts and misinform the public, he will not hold back. The president has called out a number of journalists over the course of his political career, but none of them have made the theatrical display of it that Todd has.

Video of him complaining about having his tires slashed is going viral on X:

NEW: Chuck Todd claims someone slashed his tires after Trump called him out

“There was direct correlation, right? He’d call your name out — you’d get, you know, weird phone calls, you’d get weird death threats. I got my tires slashed in front of my house.” @DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/se43lZaFtd

— Jason Cohen (@JasonJournoDC) June 1, 2025

“I dealt with it in the first term with him and other reporters, there’s a direct correlation. He’d call your name you, you’d get weird phone calls, you’d get weird death threats, I got my tires slashed in front of my house, you know,” Todd said. “Honestly, I’ve had conversations with him, I said ‘You know when you name-check people who are not in the public square, who do not have the protection, you bring a level of…’ He views it as, oh it’s good publicity.”

“I don’t think he’s doing it to create a security problem for these people, but what he wants to do is deflect blame,” he goes on. “That’s always what he’s looking for. But the reality is, it creates a security problem. And more public officials in Washington have their own security detail now than at any point in the 30 years that I’ve covered Washington. And it’s simply because of the name-checking of threats that takes place now by him.”

X users weren’t about to take Todd’s claims at face value:

I don’t believe him pic.twitter.com/qfeyKRYovq

— Marlon East Of The Pecos (@Darksideleader2) June 1, 2025

Chuck would have personally submitted this to the AP Wire if this had really happened.

— TheBiggestOfAllEd’s (@wonderlump) June 2, 2025

I mean, this should be pretty easy to provide even the barest of circumstantial proof – show the receipt for the tow and new tires at minimum.

Methinks chuck is lying.

— From the Land of Sky Blue Waters (@HammsLager) June 2, 2025

Chuck Todd is the Brian Stelter of Jesse Smolletts.

— Rob Boss (@OnlyRobBoss) June 2, 2025

Where they wearing MAGA hats and carrying nooses?

— BumbleDee MumbleBum (@BMumblebum) June 2, 2025

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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to BizPac Review.

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