CNN's Kaitlan Collins describes what it's like reporting on Trump's presidency
CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins told Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” that President Trump has little tolerance for reporters who challenge him directly. “He surrounds himself with people who praise him or laugh at his jokes, and when he is confronted with someone who is asking a challenging question, he doesn’t like it,” Ms. She offered her views on reporting inside the Oval Office after Mr.
- ▪CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins told Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” that President Trump has little tolerance for reporters who challenge him directly.
- ▪“He surrounds himself with people who praise him or laugh at his jokes, and when he is confronted with someone who is asking a challenging question, he doesn’t like it,” Ms.
- ▪She offered her views on reporting inside the Oval Office after Mr.
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CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins told Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” that President Trump has little tolerance for reporters who challenge him directly. “He surrounds himself with people who praise him or laugh at his jokes, and when he is confronted with someone who is asking a challenging question, he doesn’t like it,” Ms. Collins said. She offered her views on reporting inside the Oval Office after Mr. Trump made some verbal jabs at her during Saturday’s White House Correspondents Dinner. At the dinner, Ms. Collins received an award for her coverage of an Oval Office confrontation between Mr. Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Calling the award “fake,” Mr. Trump told her to “smile” more and compared her looks to the transgender social influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
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