President Donald Trump has hit out at one more feminine reporter, telling her she had a “very bad attitude” after she questioned him over a reported break up throughout the MAGA base over his immigration agenda.
“Where are you from?” the president requested The Washington Post reporter Natalie Allison Friday. “Washington Post? Are you having a hard time getting readers? The Washington Post is doing very poorly… You have a very bad attitude. Go ahead.”
The transient however heated alternate is the second time this week that Trump has deflected questions by attacking feminine reporters after concentrating on CNN’s Kaitlan Collins at an Oval Office briefing Tuesday.
Trump deflected from questions in regards to the Epstein recordsdata by complaining that he by no means sees Collins smile.
Collins requested Trump in regards to the not too long ago launched tranche of Epstein paperwork which embrace references to his associates together with Elon Musk and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick.
“I think it’s really time for the country to get onto something else, really,” Trump mentioned.
When Collins pushed once more, asking about justice for the ladies victimized by Epstein’s operation, Trump acquired indignant and commenced ranting about CNN and referred to as Collins “the worst reporter.” He then complained that she by no means smiled.
“You know she’s a young woman,” Trump mentioned to the remainder of the room earlier than redirecting to Collins. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen you smile.”
He continued, saying that “I’ve known you for 10 years, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a smile on your face,” including that the rationale Collins doesn’t smile is as a result of “you know you’re not telling the truth.”
Trump lashed out at Collins in December, describing her as “always Stupid and Nasty” in a Truth Social put up.
Despite the president’s use of infantile and degrading language in the direction of feminine reporters taking a notable uptick within the final yr, the White House has insisted that the insults are “nothing to do with gender.”
“President Trump has never been politically correct, never holds back, and in large part, the American people re-elected him for his transparency,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson informed The Independent in December.
“This has nothing to do with gender – it has everything to do with the fact that the president’s and the public’s trust in the media is at all time lows.”
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