Veteran news anchor Nichole Wallace strongly criticized Trump for his rude and offensive comments toward female reporters and called out the media for not standing up to him.
As the president’s behavior worsens, especially with dementia affecting him more, he gets more angry and lashes out — particularly when female journalists challenge him.
He quickly uses hurtful and degrading language, showing the same sexist attitudes he has always had.
He sees women only as objects for his and Jeffrey Epstein’s pleasure.
Wallace lost her patience after Trump insulted Rachel Scott from ABC in front of her, which was the sixth time this month.
She criticized Trump’s terrible behavior and also called out the rest of the media for not standing up to him and letting him push around their female colleagues.
“He called ABC’s Rachel Scott today, quote, obnoxious and terrible.”
“On December 6th, he called Caitlin Collins, quote, stupid and nasty.”
“On November 27th, he said, are you stupid?
to CBS journalist Nancy Cordes.”
“On November 26th, he called The New York Times Katie Rogers, quote, ugly.”
“On November 18th, he called ABC’s Mary Bruce terrible and insubordinate.”
“On November 14th, he told a Bloomberg reporter, quote, quiet piggy.”
“This is sick shit.
This is sick. And anyone in the room is in the room to do a job for their viewers or their readers. But they should go home tonight and think about whether their sisters or their daughters or their moms or their sons or their husbands or their fathers think that there’s something else they should do the next time he calls a female journalist obnoxious, terrible, stupid, nasty, stupid, ugly, terrible, insubordinate or piggy.”
“Because maybe if Donald Trump can’t live without being on TV and maybe if they said, you know what, we’re going to have some solidarity like they did with him wanting to change the names of oceans.”
“I mean, we’re either going to normalize this and then you’re going to hear all sorts of prominent people calling women all sorts of names.
I’m sure by the time I get off TV, I’ll have a few of those myself.”
“But we’re either going to normalize this and usher in an era of unprecedented misogyny or that press corps is going to act as one and say no more.”
Being a woman in the media is already tough.
The press corps not standing up for their female colleagues is not just weak — it’s enabling Trump to push his way into state media, where he gets only nice things because no one dares to challenge him.
But we’ve seen before that Trump and his team back off when someone stands up to them.
It’s time for the White House press corps to be brave and start standing up for women. Someone has to set a good example on American TV.
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