A timeline of Donald Trump's most fiery clashes with female reporters

Filed 1mo ago · Via Newsweek · The Buffoon Desk

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Flight of the Bumblebee

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President Trump's exchange with CNN's Kristen Holmes during a Monday press conference escalated when the White House's official Rapid Response 47 account posted that Holmes was 'a disgraceful, humiliating embarrassment to her alleged profession' and later suggested her children would one day be 'sickened and embarrassed' by her work. The dispute began after Holmes asked Trump about criticism from Senator Jon Ossoff, to which Trump responded by mocking Ossoff's appearance rather than answering.

The incident joins a documented pattern of confrontations with female journalists during Trump's second term, including calling ABC's Rachel Scott's question 'stupid,' telling CNN's Kaitlan Collins she is 'the worst reporter' who never smiles, and calling another reporter 'very obnoxious' aboard Air Force One. White House spokesperson Olivia Wales told Newsweek the pattern has 'nothing to do with gender' and reflects low public trust in media.

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There is a fine institutional tradition of press offices explaining that the pattern you have just watched is not a pattern, and this one arrives on schedule, insisting the common thread is coincidence rather than the only thread anyone can see. When the official rebuttal to a documented series of insults is that the public does not trust journalists, the argument has stopped being a defense and started being a business model. Any spokesperson who must issue a statement about hypothetical future children has, in a sense, already conceded the case.

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