President Donald J. Trump humiliated CNN’s Kaitlan Collins when she rudely interrupted him during an Oval Office signing of an executive order on tariffs with a trick question about Joe Biden’s rampant inflation, which he is now being attacked over for not fixing after a mere three weeks on the job.
Collins, the most masculine of CNN’s anchors, assumed the role that narcissistic pest Jim Acosta played during the first Trump administration, but the president wasn’t having any of it.
President Trump absolutely TORCHES Fake News CNN’s @kaitlancollins for rudely interrupting: “Excuse me, we haven’t asked you to speak yet” pic.twitter.com/QPDuKILalA
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 13, 2025
“Mr. President, you won the White House in part because of high inflation, if your tariffs make prices go up…,” Collins asked, before Trump cut her off.
“Excuse me, we haven’t asked you to speak yet please,” he told the impolite propagandist.
Trump also smacked her down again when Collins questioned whether he trusted Russian President Vladimir Putin who he has spoken to about bringing an end to the bloodshed in Ukraine, drawing laughs from her fellow reporters when he pointed out her network’s dismal viewership and its shilling for Biden.
President Trump to @kaitlancollins: “This should’ve been done by Biden years ago… I know he’s a friend of yours. He’s a friend of CNN — that’s why nobody watches CNN anymore because they have no credibility.” pic.twitter.com/RMpGIOCj1y
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 13, 2025
“I believe he wants peace. I believe that President Putin — when I spoke to him yesterday, I mean, I know him very well — yeah, I think he wants peace. I think he would tell me if he didn’t, I think he’d like to see peace,” Trump said when Collins jumped in.
“Do you trust President Putin?” She asked.
“I believe that, uh yeah, I believe that he would like to see something happen. I trust him on the subject. I think he’d like to see something happen. I think it could have happened a long time ago,” Trump responded. I think Biden… number one it shouldn’t have started, but it did. And now all those cities are knocked down like demolition sites.”
“All those beautiful golden towers are knocked down. There’s nothing going to replace them. But much more importantly, you lost millions of people. A lot of soldiers, but you lost millions of people. When they knocked down those cities, and they’re all laying down on the side, they’re laying down in ashes, and all crumbled up concrete, they literally look like a world-class demolition site,” he continued.
“And many of them, almost all of them, but many of them. And this should have been done by Biden years ago. This should have never been allowed to happen,” Trump said, adding “I know he’s a friend of yours.”
“But couldn’t Putin just withdraw his…” Collins said before Trump cut her off.
“He’s a friend of CNN, and that’s why nobody watches CNN anymore because they have no credibility,” he said as laughter broke out over Trump’s latest humiliation of the discredited cable “news” network’s primetime star who may soon regret her decision to join the White House Press Corps.
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