NCS’s chief White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins has dismissed Donald Trump calling her “stupid and nasty”, his latest in a collection of assaults on female journalists.
Misspelling Collins’s title, the president wrote on his Truth Social platform on Saturday: “Caitlin Collin’s [sic] of Fake News NCS, always Stupid and Nasty, asked me why the new Ballroom was costing more money than originally thought one year ago.
“I said because it is going to be double the size, and the quality of finishes and interiors has been brought to the highest level.”
He continued: “FAKE NEWS NCS, and the guy who runs the whole corrupt operation that owns it, is one of the worst in the business. Their ratings are so low that they’re not even counted or relevant anymore. MAGA!!!”
Responding on Instagram, Collins posted a screenshot of Trump’s submit with the caption: “Technically my question was about Venezuela.”
Her final on-air interaction with the president got here on Friday throughout the FIFA World Cup draw on the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., when she requested him: “You are expected to get the FIFA peace prize. What do you say to people who say that prize might conflict with your pledge to strike Venezuela?”
Trump didn’t seem particularly flustered by the query within the second, explaining that he didn’t know for certain that he would win the prize, repeating his declare that he had “settled eight wars” and that his precedence was merely “saving lives.”
Among these leaping to Collins’ defense was her community colleague Jake Tapper, who wrote on X that she is “smart,” “nice,” and that any query in regards to the ballooning price of the president’s East Wing ballroom and its funding was “legitimate.”
The incident is simply the latest instance of Trump lashing out at female reporters every time he’s confronted with a query he doesn’t take care of.
The uptick in impolite responses started on November 14 when he advised Catherine Lucey, Bloomberg’s White House correspondent, to be “quiet, piggy” on Air Force One when she requested in regards to the Jeffrey Epstein information.
Two days later, he advised one other Bloomberg reporter in Palm Beach, Florida, who had apparently interrupted him: “Will you let me finish my say? You are the worst. You’re with Bloomberg, right? You are the worst. I don’t know why they even have you.”
When Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visited the White House on November 18, he berated ABC News’s chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce for being a “terrible person and a terrible reporter” when she requested in regards to the homicide of Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.
Every week later, on the eve of Thanksgiving, he fumed that veteran New York Times journalist Katie Rogers was “assigned to only write bad things” about him and referred to as her“a third-rate reporter who is ugly, both inside and out.”
On Thanksgiving itself, he referred to as Nancy Cordes of CBS News a “stupid person” when she requested why an Afghan nationwide who had shot two members of the National Guard in D.C. had not been correctly vetted by his administration.
Most not too long ago, he claimed Weijia Jiang, additionally of CBS, would have been “incapable” of passing a cognitive check, once more aboard Air Force One, after she dared ask why he had not too long ago had an MRI scan.
Asked in regards to the assaults, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson advised The Independent: “President Trump has never been politically correct, never holds back, and in large part, the American people re-elected him for his transparency.
“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.”
The president’s estranged niece, Mary Trump, has supplied her personal opinion on the matter, saying not too long ago on her podcast: “I think it’s a sign that he’s a little rattled.”