'This is sick': Nicolle Wallace slams Trump over 'verbal violence' toward female reporters

President Donald Trump once again insulted a female journalist to her face in the Oval Office, and MS NOW host Nicolle Wallace is now calling on White House reporters to stand up for their colleagues.

On Monday, Trump called ABC News' Rachel Scott "obnoxious" after she asked him a question about his prior promise to release the video of the controversial September 2 strike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea (which he has since recanted). After he insulted Scott, the president deferred to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on the matter of the video.

"Let me just tell you, you are an obnoxious — a terrible, actually a terrible reporter," Trump said. "And it’s always the same thing with you. I told you, whatever Pete Hegseth wants to do is okay with me."

During the Monday episode of her show "Deadline: White House," Wallace urged the press to "never normalize the verbal violence" Trump has been known to heap onto women in the media. She then recounted multiple recent instances of Trump insulting female reporters.

"December 6th he called Kaitlin Collins 'stupid and nasty.'On November 27th he said 'areyou stupid' To CBS journalist Nancy Cordes. On November 26th,he called the New York Times' Katie Rogers 'ugly.' On November 18th, he called ABC's Mary Bruce 'terribleand insubordinate' — to whom I'mnot sure — November 14th, hetold a Bloomberg reporter, 'quiet, piggy,': Wallace said.

"This issick s——. This is sick. And anyonein the room is in the room todo a job for their viewers ortheir readers," she continued. "But they shouldgo home tonight and think aboutwhether their sisters or theirdaughters, or their moms, ortheir sons or their husbands, ortheir fathers think thatthere's something else theyshould do the next time hecalls a female journalistobnoxious, terrible, stupid,nasty, stupid, ugly, terrible,insubordinate, or piggy."

"Because maybe if Donald Trumpcan't live without being on TV,and maybe if they they said, 'you know what, we're going tohave some solidarity,' like theydid with him wanting to changethe names of oceans,'" she added. "We're either going to normalizethis and then you're going tohear all sorts of prominentpeople calling women all sortsof names — I'm sure by the timeI get off TV I'll have a fewof those myself — but we'reeither going to normalize thisand usher in an era ofunprecedented misogyny, or thatpress corps is going to act as one and say, 'no more.'"

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