Authoritarianism
Trump Lashes Out At Female CBS News Reporter For Asking A Question: ‘She’s So Obnoxious. Quiet!’
President Trump lashed out at a CBS News female reporter while taking questions on the White House lawn on Friday morning, calling her “obnoxious.”
“Quiet,” Trump shouted to CBS correspondent Weijia Jaing while several reporters attempted to ask questions.
“She’s so obnoxious,” Trump said before saying again to Jiang, “Quiet.”
“Quiet!” President Trump says to a reporter: “She’s so obnoxious. Quiet.” pic.twitter.com/nZE0bUPGoP
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 15, 2018
Jiang took to Twitter after the incident to say that she was the reporter in question and that Trump told her to “be quiet at least five times” after calling her obnoxious.
.@realDonaldTrump told me I was obnoxious and and to be quiet at least 5x, but to his credit he did answer plenty of our questions. https://t.co/LhiEeTGSFy
— Weijia Jiang (@weijia) June 15, 2018
Jiang said she was trying to ask Trump “why he declared the nuclear threat from North Korea was already ‘over.'”