SAT . BREAKING: Nichole Wallace Obliterates Trump for Targeting Female Reporters — Asks Why Media Still Refuses to Grow a Spine
As the president slips further and further into the grip of dementia, he is becoming more and more prone to explosive, angry outbursts — especially when challenged by female reporters. He is quick to jump straight to demeaning and dehumanizing insults, showcasing the repulsive misogyny that he’s expressed his entire life and reminding us that he only sees women as sex objects that exist only for his and Jeffrey Epstein’s pleasure.
Nicole Wallace of MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) finally had enough after Trump insulted ABC News’ Rachel Scott to her face, which was at least the sixth such incident in a month.
Wallace hammered Trump for his appalling behavior and went in on the rest of the media for meekly standing by and allowing him to bully their fellow reporter.
“He called ABC’s Rachel Scott today, quote, obnoxious and terrible.”
“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.”
“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 a hard enough gig as it is. The press corps’ refusal to stand up for their female colleagues is not only a despicable show of cowardice, it’s also enabling Trump’s incessant campaign to bully his way into state-sponsored media, where all he gets are softballs and praise because everyone is too afraid to stand up to him.
But we’ve seen before that Trump and his crew back down when someone DOES stand up to them. It’s time for the White House press corps to grow some backbone and start standing up for women.
Someone’s gotta start being a good role model on American TV
