CNN condemned the White House for launching personal attacks on one of the network’s journalists. Pee-wee Herman lookalike?” Trump replied. We’re building a great facility here.
We’re fixing a White House that hasn’t been taken care of.” The event in the Oval Office celebrated a teenage lifeguard who rescued a 10-year-old boy at a beach in Santa Cruz, California, in July. But it is common practice for journalists present at events like this to ask the President questions about a variety of issues. Later on during the event, Holmes tried to ask the President another question, this time about whether North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un had asked him to “scale back” American military exercises with South Korea.
Trump didn’t answer her, instead telling her “quiet.” “You’re very disrespectful,” Trump said to Holmes. You’re fake news.” As Holmes tried to ask her question again, Trump repeatedly said: “Be quiet. Be quiet.” “You’re a fake reporter and you report fake news,” he said to Holmes.
Tensions further rose after the official White House Rapid Response account on X shared a clip of Holmes asking Trump about Ossoff’s remarks and called Holmes “a disgraceful, humiliating embarrassment to her alleged profession.” “@POTUS hosts a hero lifeguard in the Oval Office and she uses it as an opportunity to take a cheap shot about one of President Trump’s staffers,” the White House continued. It’s quite troubling.” In addition to CNN’s official statement, many of Holmes’ colleagues fired back at the White House for its remarks. Kristen is an incredible reporter, person and, above all, mother,” Alayna Treene, a White House correspondent at CNN, said in a post on X.
Bringing her perfect children into this.” Trump has repeatedly targeted news outlets and individual journalists throughout his political career. He has attacked female journalists in particular on a number of occasions; in November, for instance, he told one female reporter “quiet, piggy” after she asked him a question and, on a separate occasion later that month, called another “a third rate reporter who is ugly, both inside and out.” The President propagated the term “Fake News” to denigrate the press, and members of his Administrations have continued to use the phrase in the years since. The White House has also created what it calls a “Media Bias Portal,” which lists journalists, news outlets, and articles that it claims are biased against the President.
Several CNN stories, including some by Holmes, are listed on the site.
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