US President Donald Trump This Thursday he called a reporter “stupid.” To ask him why his predecessor, Joe Biden (2021-2025), was blamed for the shooting of two National Guard agents in Washington, D.C., further excluding the president from female journalists.
The reporter, whose identity has not yet been revealed, wondered why Biden’s immigration policies would be blamed for Wednesday’s attack in Washington, in which an agent died and a colleague was in critical condition, if the current administration had reviewed the alleged attacker, 29-year-old Afghan Rehmanullah Lakkanwal.
“Because they let them (the Afghans) in. Are you stupid? Are you a stupid person? “Because they came on a plane with thousands of other people who shouldn’t be here, and you’re only asking questions because you’re a stupid person,” the president responded from Florida after a phone call with the military.
The loop adds to A wave of insults from the president to female journalistsWell, he only called on Wednesday “Ugly inside and out” By correspondent Katie Rogers from New York TimesWho published an article, with a colleague whom Trump did not mention, about the supposed decline in the president’s energy.
While Trump told him last week “Shut up, little pig!” To Kathryn Lucey, the Bloomberg reporter who asked him on an Air Force plane about the files of sex financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Now, the White House has shared on its official account @RapidResponse47 the video in which Trump called the reporter, whom he described as part of “fake news,” “stupid.”
The controversy has increased since FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed this on Thursday morning Lakanwal worked in a CIA-supported military unit in Afghanistan Which arrived in the United States in 2021 as part of the “Operation Welcoming Allies” program, which aims to support Afghan citizens after the US military withdrawal.
Trump blamed Biden for the “chaos” caused by the flights that transported the Afghans to the United States, but the American press reported this Thursday that the current administration had verified Lakanwal and granted him asylum in early 2025.
When asked about this specific fact, the President now answered so “When it comes to asylum, when they fly into the country, it is very difficult to get them out.”
He added: “No matter how you want to do it, it is very difficult to take them out, but now we will take them all out.”
Hours ago, USCIS He announced a “strict review” of residency cards or green cardsOf 19 nationalities of “countries of concern”, including Afghanistan, Cuba, Venezuela and Haiti.