Ex-trump Spokeswoman Leads Chorus Of Critics Blasting President For ‘misogynistic’ Attack On Cnn’s Kaitlan Collins

Donald Trump’s erstwhile White House spokeswoman led nan chorus of critics condemning nan president for “misogynistic attacks” he launched against CNN newsman Kaitlan Collins during an impromptu property conference.

Collins, CNN’s main White House correspondent, was attacked by Trump Wednesday successful nan Oval Office while answering different reporter’s mobility astir his failed $1.8 cardinal “anti-weaponization” money proposal. “A young beautiful woman, ne'er smiles,” Trump said of Collins, adding that she has “hatred successful her eyes.”

Sarah Matthews, who served arsenic Trump’s White House lawman property secretary during his first administration, said nan remarks were “disgusting” and claimed location was a logic why nan president targets Collins.

“I will opportunity that during my clip moving arsenic lawman property caput successful nan first Trump administration, Kaitlan Collins was nan 1 newsman that frightened Kayleigh McEnany and president Trump nan most,” Matthews said of nan erstwhile White House Press Secretary Wednesday connected CNN’s NewsNight.

“There would beryllium times wherever Kayleigh McEnany wouldn’t moreover telephone connected Kaitlan Collins astatine property conferences, astatine property briefings, because she didn’t want to reply nan questions, because Kaitlan Collins is simply a very, very bully reporter. She’s nan champion astatine what she does,” Matthews continued. “And I deliberation that’s why you spot Trump spell aft her much ferociously than immoderate different newsman successful that room.”

The erstwhile Trump official, who describes herself arsenic a “Republican successful exile,” went connected to opportunity it was “disgusting to watch” Trump “tell a female that she needs to grin while doing her job.”

“I’ve seen Kaitlin grin plentifulness of times, but erstwhile she’s asking personification a difficult hitting question, I don’t deliberation that that intends that she has to grin while doing it. And he brings it up clip and clip again,” she added.

Stephanie Grisham, different former Trump White House property secretary, addressed nan contention successful a societal media post, and lashed retired astatine nan White House Correspondents’ Association.

“I've gone toe-to-toe w Kaitlin, she tin clasp her ain but I don't understand @whca these days,” she said, sharing a clip of nan relationship betwixt Collins and Trump. “To guidelines for a free press, yet let nan POTUS to denigrate that stance daily, past induce him to meal (correspondents dinner) is nonsensical & I promise, he loves nan twisted irony.”

Anderson Cooper supported his workfellow connected his Wednesday CNN nighttime show, and pointed retired that what happened to Collins “doesn’t hap to men.”

“That’s nan president of nan United States,” Cooper said. “A astir 80-year-old man who has nary problem commenting connected her beingness quality and telling her she needs to smile.”

“No one‘s ever said that to maine successful an agency setting,” he continued. “She was there, for illustration each different journalist doing her job, opinionated astir pinch a bunch of non-smiling men, by nan way, each down her... she gets singled out.”

Democratic Rep. Yassamin Ansari besides laid into nan president. “Nothing to spot here. Just our intelligibly deteriorating president attacking women and nan free press. For nan millionth time, without immoderate consequences,” she wrote successful a station connected X.

“I’m judge Kaitlan Collins is not rattled successful nan slightest by these casual, sexist, repeated attacks by Trump,” editor Amanda Carpenter wrote connected X. “Her steadiness should beryllium a reminder that NO female owes immoderate man her smile.”

Comedian and big Loni Love shared a photograph pinch Collins successful a supportive societal media post. “She smiles erstwhile she wants to—not because she has to,” Love said. “Keep connected pushing.”

The Independent has contacted nan White House for comment.

Trump was successful nan mediate of a lengthy reply to different reporter’s mobility nan $1.8 cardinal “anti-weaponization” money proposal erstwhile he turned to Collins.

“A young beautiful woman, ne'er smiles,” Trump said. “I ne'er spot a grin disconnected her face. I spot her opinionated location pinch hatred successful her eyes, for illustration she has hatred, because we had borders, because we person a beardown military, because we trim our taxes, because we do things that everybody wanted, and past we triumph our predetermination successful a monolithic landslide.”

The president tore into her again erstwhile nan newsman mentioned Republican concerns that the fund, which critics called a “slush fund,” could salary January 6 rioters who faced situation for attacking constabulary officers.

“The clone news, for illustration CNN, for illustration The New York Times, and for illustration others, person abused our people, person abused our group truthful badly,” Trump said. “And you should beryllium ashamed of yourself. You utilized to beryllium a conservative. She was a blimpish from Alabama, tin you judge it? But CNN successful peculiar does specified mendacious reporting, but now they person caller ownership, truthful possibly it’ll straighten out, but I uncertainty it.”

Collins acknowledged nan speech connected her Wednesday nighttime show The Source and pointed retired that nan onslaught came earlier she’d moreover asked him a question.

“The president seemed intelligibly irritated erstwhile he was asked earlier coming why his management says it is not moving guardant pinch that $1.8 cardinal anti-weaponization fund, arsenic they person called it,” she said.

“And conscionable to note, arsenic you’re astir to perceive to this, this first speech really occurred earlier I had yet to inquire nan president a question.”