Anderson Cooper and Ana Navarro are urging individuals to not normalize Trump’s behavior of degrading and insulting individuals after he referred to as a reporter “piggy” final week.
The two NCS anchors spoke concerning the president’s surprising dismissal of Catherine Lucey, a Bloomberg reporter, whom he tried to silence on Air Force One on Friday by saying “quiet, quiet, piggy!” when she requested a query.
“I know DEI [diversity, equity and inclusion] is not allowed anymore,” Cooper mentioned Tuesday night time on NCS. “And I know diversity and actually treating people with decency and human kindness is not, you know, what’s popular today in some quarters.”
“But, I just don’t understand how somebody acts like this time after time, and everyone just pretends like, ‘Oh, that’s just what this guy does,’” Cooper mentioned incredulously.
Navarro mentioned that folks have “grown numb to it.”
“I think we have to fight that urge to normalize it and get numb to it,” she added. “I also think that other journalists in the Oval Office ― other journalists that are present ― when he behaves this way, have to express solidarity with the people that are getting berated. ’Cause today it might be ABC, but tomorrow it might be us, or it might be them.”
“It just can’t be allowed,” she mentioned. “This is something that if your children did, you would scold them for it.”
“This reporter behaved in an inappropriate and unprofessional way toward her colleagues on the plane,” an official mentioned in an announcement Tuesday. “If you’re going to give it, you have to be able to take.”
Trump additionally went off on one other reporter over the weekend after somebody requested the president concerning the potential launch of recent paperwork associated to the late intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“Well, I don’t want to talk about it because fake news like you, you’re a terrible reporter, and fake news like you, they just keep bringing that up to deflect from the tremendous success of the Trump administration,” the president mentioned.
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