The President of the United States, Donald Trump, once again attacked female journalists this Monday (8), calling one of them “irritating” and another “unprepared”.
The attacks came during a news conference where the Republican announced a $12 billion package to help farmers hit by tariffs.
Trump bristled when an ABC News reporter asked him to release full video of a controversial military raid on a boat allegedly carrying drugs in the Caribbean.
He called her “the most annoying journalist in this place” and continued: “You are the most insufferable journalist, a truly terrible journalist. It’s always the same with you.”
Asked if he would order Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to release the video, Trump responded: “I told you, whatever Pete Hegseth wants to do is fine with me.” The response marked a shift in the president’s stance, who said last week: “Whatever they have, we would definitely publish it, no problem.”
Then another reporter asked Trump about 20 House Republicans announcing they would not run for reelection and would retire. Trump became angry again, questioning why the reporter didn’t mention Democrats and calling her “totally unprepared.”
“I’m not worried. We have the best economy in history. How many Democrats are retiring? How can you only know the Republicans and not talk about the Democrats?” the president said. “You’re not prepared. Totally unprepared.”
The president has made several criticisms of women journalists in recent months. In late November, Trump called a reporter an idiot after she asked why the president had blamed his predecessor, Joe Biden, for the entry of Afghans into the country, days after an Afghan citizen killed a member of the National Guard in Washington, just blocks from the White House.
A few days earlier, after another ABC News reporter asked him why he refused to publish files on the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, the American financier convicted of involvement in a scheme to traffic and sexually abuse children and adolescents, Trump responded that the journalist was “a very bad journalist” and that she “should go back and learn how to be a journalist.”
“No more questions from you,” he added. “I think the license should be taken away from ABC because their information is very false and very false.”
The Epstein affair has also been the subject of other criticism from Trump. He called a Bloomberg News correspondent a “pig” when asked about her relationship with her attacker.
Aboard Air Force One, the presidential plane, the reporter asked what Epstein meant when he said Trump “knew about the girls” — information uncovered when the US Congress released more than 20,000 pages of the financier’s emails.
“I don’t know,” said the Republican, who tried to change the subject to Democrat Bill Clinton, who also had ties to Epstein. “If there’s nothing incriminating in the files,” the reporter said, before being interrupted by Trump.
“Calm down. Calm down, little piggy,” the president said.
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