Trump berates CNN's Kaitlan Collins for 'not smiling' at Oval Office Q&A
President Donald Trump berated CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins during an Oval Office Q&A, saying she 'never smiles' and that he sees 'hatred in her eyes.' Collins had pressed him about a $1.8 billion Department of Justice 'weaponization' fund, asking whether it was dead or on hold, and Trump called CNN 'a very corrupt organization' while saying he would 'have to ask the lawyers.' He also called the fund 'a beautiful thing' and accused reporters of abusing 'our people,' saying they 'should be ashamed of' themselves. The exchange underscores Trump's continued antagonism toward mainstream news outlets and highlights concerns about how he publicly treats female journalists covering the presidency.
Trump attacking Kaitlan Collins: Be quiet. You should be ashamed of yourself. You used to be conservative from Alabama. CNN does such false reporting, but now they have new ownership, so maybe it'll straighten it out. It’s hard to straighten garbage out.
Truth Social(ist)248Dude who rapes children telling someone they should be ashamed of themselves is peak insanity.
Rhonda Wolfson87Just once, I'd like to see one of these journalists stand up and say, "don't you dare fucking speak to me that way!" What's the worst that will happen - he'll boot you from the room? So what - at least you'll have your dignity.
Kelly82He's protecting that right hand, like it's going to run away.
Jason Smith64Good job, White House Correspondents Association. Enjoy partying with him in a few weeks. 👍🏻
smpatkinson.bsky.social47He is such a dirt bag.
Pacific Blues44Why the fuck do these reporters come back to ask questions of a person that never tells the truth and berates and insults them at every opportunity STOP!!!!!
amstermom.bsky.social34I would love to hear Collins say, "That would really hurt if I cared about your opinion. I'll repeat my question."
DanaDunes26And he used to be a Democrat from NYC.
ZWash25Just once, can one of these so-called journalists stand up for themselves? This is inexcusable behavior.
Middlerage17Did he just call her garbage???? Because dude look in the mirror. You are rapist, racist trash!
MaryinMn16Waiting for the day when the reporters grow a spine and walk out en masse.
Deedee16And no one came to her rescue. A bunch of scared losers.
Dan Thiell15Some CNN reporter should just go off on him. Why not? They're all going to get fired anyway.
Christian Petersen13The way the corporate media handles Trump with kid-gloves is one of the most dispiriting aspects of this era. Sure, if they fight back, they might lose access...but access to what? His stream of lies and bullshit? These members of the press are just as much his enablers as any republican politician.
thenicabides.bsky.social11I would love to see Kaitlin just unload on that asshole.
Light the Candle9Saying out loud about new ownership of news organizations “straightening it out” should send chills down our spine. This is Viktor Orban II.
Catherine8Trump complaining of abuse as he abuses a reporter on the world stage.
Thanatos8Let me know when there’s a line forming to punch this asshole in the face
📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦8DYING for someone to say to him, "YOU work for ME, buster! You have no right to talk to me that way. Get bent!"
lesliead717.bsky.social7i wish someone would just once tell him to go f**k himself.
Patti7If only we as Americans could find a way to remove this piece of garbage
catlady49ers.bsky.social7Calling other people “garbage” is just Trump projecting again.🙄
Ebenezer Foxnews7He is just a sad, old man with a grudge against the world.
staatenlos.bsky.social7He's gonna make a horse the new DNI
socalcallie.bsky.social6He’s truly a vile POS.
Cheri🌻📚😻🎨🏳️🌈🇺🇦🏁✡️♻️🍅6He's on something heavy duty
Al Stewart6how any woman ever voted for this adjudicated rapist, is beyond me www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Sue6The male journalists are cowards for not speaking out against this playground bully.
Peggy6What a sweetheart! NOT! Can people just stop interviewing the Liar-in-chief?
LibsLikeMe5We’re going to have to break up all these monopolies They’re giving us no choice.
K🌊🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇲🖖🇲🇽🇨🇦🦋5What a sorry excuse for a man a sorry excuse for a president.
a2run.bsky.social5She should have said: “You used to be coherent.”
Walter Muller5Just imagine the amount of looting of the treasury that is being done on behalf of tech bros by this imbecile that they are kissing his ass as if he is the ultimate messiah
Scott Craig Cigars4Every *real* reporter in that room needed to stand and in unison say, "fuck you!" This needs to end now. There is nothing left for the US press corps to try to salvage here. Stop taking q&a ops with him! It's not like you're staying with any story more than 12 hours anyway.
Terry Blumenstein4Nobody stood up for her. As @jimacosta.bsky.social said on MSNOW, journalists need to be standing up and speaking out.
Elbows Up, eh 🇨🇦4Iran ceasefire collapsed. Cop beaters slush fund collapsed. IRS immunity for Trump & family threatened. House vote on War Measures pending. Funds for ball room refused. Kushner & Ivanka Sazan Island project exposed.
Керрі Світ🇺🇦🇨🇦🇩🇰🇪🇺3Not-so-subtle command to Larry Ellison
Bensmom333Congratulations WHCA. Ya played yourself.
Lolo #Resist #NoKings #Protest #LoveYourNeighbor3Talk back, dammit! WH press is WEAK!
Sergeant Swamp💙3Kaitlin, please don't give airtime
jennywing.bsky.social3The word for Trump is V.I.L.E. x.com/DanRather/st...
Salty Smirk 😏3He’s just so damn awful. Complete garbage human.Can’t wait until he’s gone for good.
skippyoz3Piggy trump is a lowlife, lying thief destroying all he touches. Malignant Narcissist.
Yet once again not a single one of her colleagues would stand up for her.
CLE2Something is coming CNN’s way & it resembles a censorship attack on free speech. Trump’s way.
☮️AG-Tessa☮️2WHY IS NO ONE DOING ANYTHING?
Good Trouble 🇺🇸2The biggest prick ever. 🤮
Steven Goldsmith 🦋2He constantly says what is supposed to be quiet, out loud. The moment David Ellison has gotten final approval, the same fate awaits CNN as what has happened to CBS.
Nice Old Geezer Opposes Fascist Dictators2Which will he attack next…Cuba or CNN?
Anti-SS 🍺 🍻2At least he didn't call her "Piggy", so there is that.
Formerly known as Truly S.2One thing he said there that is absolutely true: "It's hard to straighten garbage out." He is living proof. Barely living, but living nonetheless.
hippo123.bsky.social2How about a week where no journalists turn up to anything 🤔
StateSide 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇵🇷 🇵🇦2Wait … is this from today? Does this mean the rumors are false and he has just been sleeping for six days straight?
iammspixie.bsky.social2Every accusation is a confession.
DazBev2Well he would know ...
Russ DiBello2I guess I'm fortunate that none of the women I happen to know would take that kind of verbal abuse, much less in public and even from a POTUS without, shall we say, a reaction that would make the history books.
FloridaMan3052Retort - you used to be a Democrat
I’m BLACK & I’m proud-say it loud…2If she snapped on him one day and CNN fired her, she would have a YT channel and half a million subscribers in a month.
Drive The Car Like We Stole It2Buddy is flaming the fuck out, keep the pressure on his ass.
Trump just insulted Kaitlan Collins and CNN with bullshit lies. Kaitlan stood in front of Trump and took the bullshit. At what point, are we going to tell Trump to go fuck himself?
❌👑5I wish she would laugh in his face. Being insulted by this vile little man is a badge of honor
Alison5I wish I could volunteer to do it...it would be an honor.
so-what-who-cares.bsky.social4Tell his criminal children too
Laura Secord II (not my real name)3Not a spine or balls amongst them
IdahoGal10062Surprised she didn't. I agree - someone, and preferably one of the women he's denigrated publicly, will come back at him with both barrels blazing, and he'll be too confused to continue.
Terry2Journalists need to speak to Trump as he speaks to them. Trump took over CBS and now Trump is working on CNN. Trump will not stop until he has A full State Media like Fox .
Does the old geezer know that he first started serving as President 9 years ago, and Kaitlan Collins has been covering the Presidency ever since then, meanwhile while she is definitely beautiful, she's old enough to know she doesn't have to smile?
Vagabonding 🇨🇦🇩🇰🇸🇪🇺🇸10I miss watching Yamiche Alcindor tear him up
djr1015.bsky.social8Do male journalists have to smile?🤬
Detective Buzzkill6The president is losing his mind on TV, right in front of us. I just called both of my senators. Again.
Gabrielle5I think it’s amazing how she takes massive public verbal blows, stays centered, and fires back one intelligent dogged question after another. She impressive.
#Nov2026 🌊🌊 Vote for Democracy 🗳️ - ICE❌5what is there to 'smile at'? the stench and feeling of disgust must be overwhelming...
suzythealpacagoth.bsky.social4My favorite response to the, hey lady smile, is "I don't exist for you"
RuffHouse Matt4And I've noticed long before this that she has a very beautiful smile with the cutest little upturned lips like they're painted on a doll's face. This is definitely about her not faking smiles around him like those other lying women he surrounds himself with.
GlammaSandy2If he doesn't think a beautiful woman doesn't not smile at him adoringly, he hates her no matter who she is. He is such a petty man.
Kaitlan Collins doesn’t need to smile for Trump. Nobody does.
📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦3I'm DESPERATE for Kaitlan or someone to say, "Back off, buster! YOU work for US, and you don't have the right or, frankly, the credibility to say that to ANYbody."
Tawni Kondo2I know when she'll smile
Sierra Delta2Hatred in *her* eyes? Dude, look in the mirror to see where the hatred truly is.
Viv Savage2We are in a place the United States has never been before. Meaning, if something happened to POTUS tomorrow, *literally* at least 2/3rds of the US population (and most of the rest of the world) would breathe a sigh of relief. It's sad really. But I also have anger for those who made it happen.
Kaitlan Collins: "Is the $1.8 billion DOJ fund dead or is it on hold?" Trump: "I'd have to ask the lawyers...The weaponization fund, as far as I'm concerned, was a beautiful thing...People like you have abused our people so badly...you should be ashamed of yourself."
Voted for joy and we ended up with this13I'm positive that Kaitlan Collins didn't beat up cops and smear shit all over the capitol.
fuscoe1.bsky.social12The one who should be ashamed of himself is the felon trump.
jmc11"Our people." The poop smearers, the monument desecrators, the raving lunatics scaling the Capitol and breaking in, stabbing with Trump flags...
Phoukaco4Just once I want someone in that room to tell him to go fuck himself. He's such a vile asshole.
Graham C Lester4Trump always looks like an even bigger idiot than usual when he is dealing with Kaitlan Collins.
Jim Rockford3She was just attacked by the government. She should submit a claim!
Fabritzio Fabricato (Satire)3Trump is waiting for you to be distracted by something else.
hollyave.bsky.social3He’s beyond repulsive and what nerve. To talk to her like that shows he feels emboldened and thinks he’ll never be held accountable
And then... He starts bitching about CNN being nasty and why doesn't she ever smile.
Susan Lancaster Jaeger3I hadn't seen or listened to him in quite some time, but I caught this performance. He's really, really bad isn't he?
squirrels1963.bsky.social2I just want to smack him upside his head.
Max the Silent2What a truly horrible bastard
Trump rudely attacks Kaitlan Collins of CNN, accusing her of being the reason for his $1.8 billion "anti government weaponization fund" - "She used to be a conservative, she's from Alabama."
fr33d0mnow.bsky.social4Dear Donald Trump: January 6th, 2021 was an attempted coup on our federal government so you could take it over It was violent and your supporters who beat policemen and damage the capital are criminals. The American people
Semper Veritas3Worst president we’ve ever had.
Bea3at this point, i think kaitlan is doing this for street cred points. a REAL journalist would sit at their desk, watch c-span, then write the truth. or at least say "the FUCK you think you are, old man?"
Let's flip the expectations. Why don't we require men to "smile pretty"? Always be pleasant but not too pleasant. Always look professional but not too professional. You'll look pretty. Trump attacks CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins for not smiling: 'Hatred in her eyes' www.rawstory.com/cnn-kaitlan-...
Regina Schrambling 2His eyes are dead. Symptom of tertiary syphilis. (& fellow "journalists" staying silent lets him get away with endless attacks on women. When they could be reminding people of the last thing girls in the Epstein files must have seen.)
stephthethird.bsky.social2Donald should try being as hot as Obama or gtfo.
