The Daily Beast reports President Donald Trump has insulted yet another female reporter, this time dismissing NBC News’ Yamiche Alcindor as “aggressive” and telling her to take it “nice and easy.”
The exchange occurred as the president took media questions after signing a bill awarding congressional medals to the 1980 U.S. Olympic ice hockey team in the Oval Office.
Alcindor initially peppered Trump on the issue of Venezuela, asking if he intended to claim more oil assets from the country, following reports on Wednesday that the U.S. had seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.
“It wouldn’t be very smart for me to tell you that,“ Trump answered. “We’re supposed to be a little bit secretive. You’re a very big-time reporter, and I don’t think I want to tell a big-time reporter, or a small-time reporter, that.”
Alcindor attempted to ask Trump another question roughly seven minutes later, but Trump told her, “Wait, wait, wait. You have to be nice and easy, nice and easy,” before addressing the men standing around him and saying, “She’s very aggressive.”
Trump eventually returned to Alcindor, which gave her the opportunity to ask him a question about the photos from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate released by Oversight Committee Democrats on Friday. The photos featured Trump and other rich and powerful men like Richard Branson, Bill Gates, and former President Bill Clinton.
“I haven’t seen them, but everybody knew this man,” Trump said. “He was all over Palm Beach, he has photos with everybody. There are hundreds and hundreds of people that have photos with him, so that’s no big deal. I know nothing about it,” Trump replied.
In the past two months alone, Daily Beast reports Trump has called a female reporter “piggy” while telling her to be quiet.
“[He’s] called another female reporter ‘stupid’ three times in quick succession, described another female reporter as ‘obnoxious’ and a ‘terrible reporter’ for asking him about his lethal boat strikes, and threatened to revoke ABC’s broadcast license after fielding a question from the network’s White House Correspondent, Mary Bruce,” the Beast reports.
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