CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Was ‘Not Surprised’ Trump Insulted Her in White House Correspondents’ Dinner Speech: ‘That Happens Pretty Regularly Inside the Oval Office’
CNN‘s Kaitlan Collins was “not surprised” that U.S. This is just a bigger venue where it was happening,” Collins said. “What was most surprising to me was...
Key points
- CNN‘s Kaitlan Collins was “not surprised” that U.S.
- This is just a bigger venue where it was happening,” Collins said.
- “What was most surprising to me was — the room was filled with a lot of his staffers, his cabinet, his allies, Republicans in Congress — it was so quiet in the room during the president’s remarks.” “Do you think it’s because of how much they respect him?” Stewart asked, to which Collins cheekily replied: “Who’s to say.” Popular on Variety Collins received an award for her coverage of Trump’s contentious meeting with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky during the dinner, which was rescheduled from April after a gunman crashed through security at the original event.
- In his speech, the president said Collins “shouldn’t get the award” and that it was “fake,” and then went on a tangent about how she should smile more.
What happened
CNN‘s Kaitlan Collins was “not surprised” that U.S. This is just a bigger venue where it was happening,” Collins said. “What was most surprising to me was — the room was filled with a lot of his staffers, his cabinet, his allies, Republicans in Congress — it was so quiet in the room during the president’s remarks.” “Do you think it’s because of how much they respect him?” Stewart asked, to which Collins cheekily replied: “Who’s to say.” Popular on Variety Collins received an award for her coverage of Trump’s contentious meeting with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky during the dinner, which was rescheduled from April after a gunman crashed through security at the original event. In his speech, the president said Collins “shouldn’t get the award” and that it was “fake,” and then went on a tangent about how she should smile more. Mulvaney responded to Trump in a TikTok video on Sunday, saying she was “honored” to be compared to Collins and the president’s attack was perhaps the “greatest compliment of all.” As Collins said, Trump has a history of insulting her and deflecting her questions, which Stewart pointed out are often pretty straightforward. “I don’t want it to only serve...
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