President Donald Trump tore into a female journalist’s demeanor on Air Force One mere days after a tense exchange with CNN‘s Kaitlan Collins.
Trump blasted a Washington Post reporter on Friday as she began asking him about how ‘a number of people in the MAGA base’ viewed his ongoing immigration crackdown.
Before she could finish her question, the US President stopped her to ask which outlet she works for.
The reporter identified herself as Natalie Allison with the Post, prompting the POTUS to take aim at the paper.
‘You are having a hard time getting readers,’ he told her. ‘Washington Post is doing very poorly.’
‘You have a very bad attitude,’ he added.
Trump then pressed Allison to ‘go ahead’ with the question. When she tried again, Trump cut her off mid–sentence and interrupted her again.
The US President’s latest remarks came just days after his spat with Collins in the Oval Office on Tuesday.
US President Donald Trump interrupted a Washington Post reporter on Friday and criticized her ‘very bad attitude’
Natalie Allison, the Washington Post’s White House reporter, was asking Trump about his immigration crackdown when she was interrupted
Allison, the Post’s White House reporter, appeared to be asking Trump about how some of his supporters supposedly wanted ‘to see all illegal immigrants deported’ and not just the ‘violent criminals.’
‘Let me tell you about my base,’ Trump said. ‘My base has never been strong. My base is me and other very good people. People that love our country.’
The commander in chief added that his ‘America First’ supporters ‘couldn’t be more thrilled’ with how he was running the country.
‘We have crime down to the lowest level that it’s been at 125 years,’ Trump said. ‘We have a border that’s totally closed. We have all the things that our base wanted, and we have the best economy in history.’
Trump insisted that his base was ‘very happy’ as he continued taking aim at his predecessor Joe Biden’s ‘very high prices.’
‘But would you support mass deportations of people who are otherwise law–abiding?’ Allison asked him.
‘We want to see everybody, but we’re focusing on the criminals,’ the US President replied. ‘We’re focusing on killers.’
Trump criticized CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins in the Oval Office earlier this week after she asked him about Jeffrey Epstein’s victims
Trump added that those removed from the country ‘can come back if they do it properly,’ though he did not elaborate on what he meant.
He acknowledged that ‘a lot of people have been deported’ already, but insisted the administration’s priority was still violent offenders.
‘The focus is on the murderers, the drug dealers,’ Trump said. ‘We have many people mentally insane.’
He added that ‘they dumped everything in our country.’
Trump’s comments to Allison during a press gaggle on Friday followed his rebuke of CNN’s Collins earlier this week in the White House.
Collins had asked the US President about Jeffrey Epstein’s victims and the latest batch of the Epstein files when he tried to redirect the conversation.
‘I think it’s really time for the country to get onto something else,’ Trump said. ‘Now that nothing came out about me – other than it was a conspiracy against me, literally, by Epstein and other people.’
Collins then attempted to ask what Trump would say to the dead pedophile’s survivors when he tore into her.
‘You are the worst reporter,’ the US President said. ‘CNN has no ratings because of people like you.’
Trump mused that he did not recall Collins smiling before, as he directly addressed the CNN host.
‘I’ve known you for 10 years,’ he told her. ‘I don’t think I’ve ever seen a smile on your face.’
Trump also took aim at a separate female journalist in November – again, for asking about the Epstein files.
Bloomberg reporter Catherine Lucey seemed to be asking the US President a question relating to the convicted sex offender when he started waving a finger in her face.
‘Quiet, quiet piggy!’ Trump told Lucey on Air Force One.
In November, Trump also directed his anger at a Bloomberg journalist who asked him about the Epstein files
Trump’s comments about the Post also happened after the paper announced mass layoffs to staff during an internal Zoom call on Wednesday morning.
The cuts could see more than 300 journalists lose their jobs across the publication, according to The New York Times.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos bought the Post in 2013 for $250million, but the outlet has struggled with declining subscriptions and web traffic amid a push for profitability.
The layoffs have effectively reduced the paper’s international reporting, eliminated its sports department, scrapped its books desk and suspended its flagship podcast.
