ABC News suspended veteran journalist Terry Moran after he disregarded both US President Donald Trump and one of his administration’s officials as “world-class hater(s)” on social media. Although the senior national correspondent’s late Saturday night post was deleted shortly after it first emerged on X, ABC News issued a firm statement, establishing its the network’s stand given the new controversy. Standing for “objectivity and impartiality,” the news outlet said it “does not condone subjective personal attacks on others.”

A spokesperson for ABC told The Hollywood Reporter that Terry Moran’s X post expressing his thoughts against Trump admin’s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller “does not reflect the views of ABC News and violated our standards.” As a result, the network veteran has been suspended “pending further evaluation.”

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What ABC journalist Terry Moran wrote on X

Moran, who has been with the network since 1997, wrote in his now-deleted post, “The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism.”

“Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy. But that’s not what’s interesting about Miller. It’s not brains. It’s bile. Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. He’s a world-class hater. You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate.”

After roasting Miller, Moran also went on to drag Donald Trump as a “world-class hater,” adding that his hatred is “only a means to an end, and that end his own glorification. That’s his spiritual nourishment.”

Soon after the post popped up online, White House officials, including Vice President JD Vance, took charge against the ABC journalist, describing virtual expression as a “vile smear.” While Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called his online onslaught “unhinged and unacceptable,” the general seething sentiment prevailing on X urged the network to take strict action against Moran.

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ABC News vs Trump continues

Terry Moran’s ABC suspension weeks after he interviewed President Trump in the Oval Office, marking his 100 days in office for his second term. During the White House interaction, the Republican maintained that his administration followed the law when it came to his mass deportation plan.

ABC News, in turn, made it to headlines again nearly six months after the organisation agreed to pay $15 million to a Trump presidential foundation following the filing of a defamation case in the wake of anchor George Stephanopoulos repeatedly contending that Trump had been found “liable for rape” in a lawsuit filed by E Jean Carroll. The jurors actually rejected the rape claim, finding the president responsible for a lesser degree of sexual abuse in 2023.