CNN anchor John Berman complained that his “virgin ears” were defiled by President Donald Trump’s profane rant about the Jeffrey Epstein case, and roasted him for calling it a “hoax.”

Trump lashed out this week when he was asked about reported plans for a Wednesday night gathering at Vice President JD Vance’s residence that would include Trump Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to discuss their Epstein Files strategy:

DONALD TRUMP, U.S. PRESIDENT: Look, the whole thing is a hoax. It’s put out by the Democrats because we’ve had the most successful six months in the history of our country, and that’s just a way of trying to divert attention to something that’s total bullshit, okay?

On Thursday’s edition of CNN News Central, Berman joked with White House correspondent Alayna Treene that Trump’s language “sears my virgin ears!” and pointedly asked Treene about the “hoax” claim:

TREENE: Now, John, while you see the president clearly frustrated there, swearing in the Oval Office, you had, you know, Tim Cook of Apple standing nearby as he’s taking these questions. There is a growing sense among people in the administration, but specifically here at the White House, in the West Wing, that they need to begin to really take over the narrative here and try to control the optics around the Epstein scandal. And that is why they’re having these talks and wanting to, you know, considering whether or not to really make public those materials from Maxwell’s maybe a good first step in all of this.

All to say unclear if they’re going to try and meet again to, you know, really smooth things over between Kash Patel and Pam Bondi and what exactly happened there. But it did not move forward as planned after our story and the media and the intense media scrutiny that was on it. John?

BERMAN: Those naughty words, you know, sear my virgin ears, Alayna! But just to be clear, the deputy attorney general did meet for two days with Ghislaine Maxwell over an issue, which the president just said is total B.S., correct?

TREENE: No, that’s right. And they are, again, as we’ve reported, and they are potentially going to be releasing that information. You know, the president here, John, does want to move on from this and every time he’s addressing it. You can see the frustration that this is kind of consuming a lot of the coverage. And so, yes, there are our divisions here, but they are still moving ahead with the strategy.

BERMAN: All right. Alayna Treene at the White House this morning, thanks so much. Kate?

BOLDUAN: Divisions just within the president himself of what he would like to see happen at this point.

Watch above via CNN News Central.

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