Trump lays into one other female reporter and asks ‘are you a silly person?’ | News World

Donald Trump has sparked renewed controversy over his treatment of female reporters by repeatedly calling one ‘silly’ at a press conference.

The 79-year-old lashed out when asked to clarify previous comments saying his predecessor Joe Biden was chargeable for the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, DC on Wednesday.

The suspected killer, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, is an Afghan national who worked in a special CIA-backed military unit in Afghanistan before moving to the US in 2021 when American forces pulled in a foreign country.

Trump repeatedly claimed there was ‘no vetting’ for Afghans who got here to the US on the time, saying: ‘They got here in unvetted, and we now have loads of others on this country we’re gonna get them out, but they go cuckoo.’

This contradicts a press release from his own Department of Justice earlier this 12 months saying there was ‘thorough vetting’ of all Afghan evacuees by the FBI and Department of Homeland Security.

On Thursday, it emerged Lakanwal applied for asylum in 2024 and it was granted by the Trump administration in April this 12 months.

The reporter raised the Department of Justice’s statement, asking the president: ‘So why do you blame the Biden administration?’

Trump replied: ‘Because they allow them to in. Are you silly? Are you a silly person?

‘Because they got here into on a plane together with hundreds of other those who shouldn’t be here, and also you’re just asking questions since you’re a silly person.’

An official White House X account posted a partial video of the exchange with three ‘fire’ emojis.

The a part of the reporter’s query raising the DoJ statement which contradicted Trump was cut from the clip.

White House spokeswoman Abigail later defended the comment.

‘President Trump has never been politically correct, never holds back, and largely, the American people re-elected him for his transparency’ she said in a press release.

‘This has nothing to do with gender – it has every thing to do with the incontrovertible fact that the President’s and the general public’s trust within the media is in any respect time lows.’

Later within the conference, Trump was asked to comment on the reports that the suspect was granted asylum under his administration.

He replied: ‘On the subject of asylum, once they’re flown in it’s very hard to get them out, irrespective of how you must do it’s very hard to get them out, but we’re going to be getting all of them out.’

Trump previously drew criticism for calling one other female reporter ‘piggy’ earlier this month.

He lashed out at Bloomberg’s Catherine Lucy after she asked him concerning the Epstein files, saying ‘quiet, quiet, piggy’ while waving his finger at her.

Earlier this week he responded to an article by The Latest York Times’ White House correspondent Katie Rogers, through which she reported he has significantly reduced his workload as a result of age and fatigue, by calling her ‘ugly, each in and out’ in a social media post.

Wednesday’s attack saw shots fired at a gaggle of National Guard members near a metro station.

Of the 2 soldiers hit, one, 20-year-old Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, has since died of her wounds.

Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24, stays in hospital where he’s ‘fighting for his life’.

Quickly after Sarah’s death, Trump posted a flurry of incoherent messages on his Truth Social account containing a vow to ‘permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to permit the U.S. system to totally recuperate’.

He also said his administration would ‘end all federal advantages and subsidies to noncitizens’ and take away ‘anyone who just isn’t a net asset to america’.

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