Did CNBC correspondent Megan Cassella inform President Trump “Sir, you are the president, not God” throughout a press briefing? There is not any proof for that: No information articles make any point out of the quote and neither does CNBC’s personal web site. According to a put up from Cassella on X she has been on maternity go away since September 19, 2025.
The viral quote appeared in a picture in a Facebook post (archived here) printed on December 5, 2025. The textual content within the picture learn:
CNBC Correspondent, Megan Cassella landed a one two verbal punch on a surprised Trump throughout a press briefing.
Her responses to 2 of his impolite outbursts:
“Sir, you are the president, not God.”
Then, in response to him demanding she by no means say that once more she replied
“Mr. President I ask questions, not permission.
This is what the image in the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:
Source: Facebook screenshot taken on Sat Dec 6 15:02:29 2025 UTC
Such an exchange during a press briefing in front of national or international journalists would be major news, yet at the time of writing a search on Google News for news stories with the quote “Sir, you’re the president, not God” does not return any results (archived here). Neither does a Google search for pages on cnbc.com’s website with that quote (archived here). Even a direct search of CNBC’s web site for the phrase does not return any results (archived here).
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Cassella herself introduced on September 19, 2025 in a post on X (archived here) that she was “signing off” for maternity go away till 2026 so it’s unlikely she would have attended any press briefings prior to now few months:
Lead Stories reached out to Megan Cassella through direct message and we’ll replace this story when a reply is acquired.