"I remember a couple of weeks ago, Cooper said, before recalling an exchange between Trump and a female reporter last month. As she asked a question, Trump told Vice President JD Vance, I just like to watch her talk. The president then called her darling. Cooper continued: A female reporter was trying to ask him a question, and he was saying to the guy, like I just like to watch her talk. Like, just completely dismissing this person."
"Like, just completely dismissing this person. And I know DEI is not allowed anymore. And I know diversity and actually treating people with decency and human kindness is not, you know, what's popular today in some quarters. But I just don't understand how somebody acts like this time after time, and everyone just pretends like, Oh, that's just what this guy does."
"Navarro responded that we've grown numb to it. And I think we have to fight that urge to normalize it and get numb to it, she continued. And I also think that other journalists in the Oval Office, other journalists that are present, when he behaves this way, have to express solidarity with the people that are getting berated, because today it might be ABC, but tomorrow it might be us, or it might be them."
President Donald Trump repeatedly uses dismissive, juvenile insults toward reporters, including calling a reporter 'Quiet, quiet, piggy!' after a question aboard Air Force One and telling Vice President JD Vance, 'I just like to watch her talk,' while calling the reporter 'darling.' Those actions dismissed and belittled reporters attempting to ask questions. Commentators expressed bafflement at the repeated behavior and warned against normalizing it. Observers noted that many have grown numb to such insults and urged journalists in the room to show solidarity with berated colleagues to prevent further normalization and to protect any outlet that could be targeted next.
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