CNN conservative commentator S.E. Cupp blasted Donald Trump for storming out of an interview with NBC News’ Kristen Welker, calling the president’s behavior “gross” and suggesting it happened because he “doesn’t want press, he wants propaganda.”

Trump abruptly ended the interview, which aired on Sunday’s edition of “Meet the Press,” after Welker repeatedly challenged him over his false claims that the 2020 presidential election (which he lost to Joe Biden) was stolen from him.

Discussing the moment on CNN’s “OutFront,” anchor Erin Burnett suggested there was “something visceral” and “unsettling” about Trump’s reaction and that he “either wanted that to go out that way or he truly lost control of his anger and frustration.”

Cupp responded: “I don’t think he intended this. I think he got angry.”

Trump “talks about election fraud all the time,” she noted, but said it’s “not often he’s sitting across from someone in sort of a captive environment where someone says, ‘Prove it. You’ve not proved this. You’ve sent Republicans out on witch hunts in all 50 states; 63 federal courts have thrown out allegations of voter fraud. You have not proven it.’”

She continued, “What does he say to that? He can’t prove it. So he’s got to go to the greatest hits of the press is corrupt.”

Trump “doesn’t want press, he wants propaganda,” she added. “And when he’s sitting across from someone who’s not going to do the propaganda, he thinks, ‘This country is going to hell, we don’t have a good press that’s going to say what I want them to say.’”

Burnett said it was “unsettling” to see “someone in the position that he’s in … to lose their self-control and their composure in the way that he did.”

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