Donald Trump’s sexist treatment of female journalists continues, with the U.S. president insulting CNN White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins during a press conference on Tuesday. The journalist, doing her job, asked Trump about the Epstein files and what he would say to survivors of the convicted sex offender — to which the president responded with a string of insults, ending with, “I don’t think I’ve seen you smile.”
“She’s asking you about a notorious sex trafficking ring that the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people are connected to,” said Seth Meyers during his Late Night segment on Trump’s behaviour on Thursday night. “It’s not her fault you’re in a bad mood because the grilled cheese you made for lunch is bumping up against the hamburger in your belly full of Diet Coke.
“Now to you, a normal person watching this at home, you might think the president telling a female reporter to ‘smile’ while she asked a question about a sex trafficker might make him look like a dick, but what if you asked another dick? What would they think of that exchange?” Meyers added.
Cut to footage of JD Vance’s interview with Megyn Kelly, in which the vice president called Trump’s comment to Collins “actually like, so perceptive.”
“You think telling a woman to smile more is perceptive?” responded Meyers. “Then let me introduce you to New York’s many construction workers. They’re veritable Oracle of Delphis. You know, I’m also a little perceptive now and then, and I do perceive JD Vance as the wormy little chud he is.”
Jimmy Kimmel and The Daily Show‘s Michael Kosta also slammed Trump’s comments on their shows.
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