President Donald Trump took aim at frequent goal Kaitlan Collins during this 12 months’s rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
“I would like to personally congratulate CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on receiving her award. It was all about me. It’s a fake — she shouldn’t get the award, it was a fake,” Trump, 80, said in the course of the Friday, July 24, event, which was moved to the Waldorf Astoria in Washington, D.C., following the safety breach and subsequent shooting on the annual April fundraiser.
Collins, 34, was previously awarded for her coverage of the president’s contentious Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy — an exchange that sparked fierce criticism of the president and his continued friendship with various dictators, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.
“But I don’t mind, I said, ‘Kaitlan, congratulations.’ Nevertheless it was fake, there’s no doubt about it,” the president continued, before turning his attention to Collins’ appearance. “She’s a young, attractive woman. She never smiles. I said, ‘Kaitlan, do you ever smile? Smile. You might have a pleasant position, you’re at CNN fake news, you have to be a comfortable person. So smile, Kaitlan, just smile.”
He added of the news anchor’s looks, “I assumed Kaitlan had really made it big with a serious latest sponsorship, but then I informed her that it wasn’t her on the Bud Light can, it was Dylan Mulvaney.”
Trump’s decision to check Collins to Mulvaney, a trans actress, has been wildly criticized as transphobic, because the president and his administration have repeatedly targeted trans athletes competing in women’s sports and trans youth — in addition to trans adults — accessing gender-affirming care.
Us has reached out to the White House for comment.
The president’s speech on the rescheduled dinner, meant to rejoice the liberty of speech and freedom of the press, was not the primary instance wherein the commander-in-chief has targeted Collins and her looks specifically.
“She’s a young beautiful woman. Never smiles. I never see a smile off her face,” Trump said of the reporter during an Oval Office press conference earlier this month. “I see her standing there with hatred in her eyes, like she has hatred, because we had borders, because we have now a robust military, because we cut our taxes, because we do things that everyone wanted, after which we win our election in an enormous landslide.”
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He continued on the time, “People like you will have abused our people so badly. The fake news, like CNN, like The Latest York Times, and like others, have abused our people, have abused our people so badly.”
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