Trump Loses It On Female Journalist Over ‘Stupid Question’ | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump berated a reporter on Sunday for asking a primary query throughout a press availability aboard Air Force One.

Trump was requested concerning the unfolding scenario in Iran, the place the regime has launched a lethal crackdown amid nationwide protests and threatened to assault U.S. navy bases if Trump intervenes.

“If they do that, we’ll consider things, targets, that they wouldn’t believe,” Trump warned. “If they do that, we will hit them at levels that they’ve never been hit before.”

He stated Iran can be met with “a very, very powerful force” if it attacked U.S. targets.

“Do you think Iran takes your threats seriously?” somebody requested.

It’s not clear who requested the query, however Trump stated the reporter was from CNN.

“I think so. Don’t you think so, CNN?” Trump replied, then went via an inventory of abroad navy actions together with the 2020 assassination of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, 2019 strike that killed ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Syria, and the current U.S. navy operation in Venezuela that eliminated President Nicolás Maduro.

“She says, CNN, ‘Do you think they take your threat seriously?’” Trump repeated in a mocking tone. “Wouldn’t you say they do after all of the things we’ve done? What a stupid question.”

Trump has a protracted historical past of attacking each female and male reporters, however has been significantly impolite to ladies who cowl him, particularly in current months.

Last month, he slammed CNN’s Kaitlan Collins as “always Stupid and Nasty” in a rant posted on his Truth Social web site, misspelling her identify within the course of. When CBS News White House correspondent Nancy Cordes tried to ask a query throughout a Thanksgiving press gaggle, he fired again: “Are you stupid? Are you a stupid person?”

He known as Katie Rogers of The New York Times “ugly” after she co-authored a report on his lighter schedule as he ages, slammed ABC’s Mary Bruce for asking what he known as “a horrible, insubordinate, and just a terrible question,” and insulted Bloomberg’s Catherine Lucey with a now-infamous “Quiet, piggy!”