In a very entertaining moment during his Friday, August 29 interview with the Daily Caller, President Donald Trump teed up White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt to totally trash CBS News’s Margaret Brennan, a notoriously woke news anchor who has remained an inveterate enemy of the Trump Administration.
As background, Trump and Leavitt’s comments came in the midst of Reese commenting on how well things are going at the Daily Caller, claiming that the primarily internet-focused news outlet has continued to grow and grow over the past few years even as outlets like CNN have continued to fall to pieces.
That part of the conversation with Reese came when she said, in response to the president asking her about how she likes her job, “It’s been a really successful eight months, you know, over the last, the last eight months, but the last, the three years that I’ve been there, we just have continued to grow and grow, which has been really fun to experience.”
Trump then commented on the state of the media and how large the news and entertainment media’s market is, saying, “People don’t realize how big our market is. You know? It’s like if they had Nora O’Donnell, anybody could do this. You could take 50% of the women off the street, they’d do just as good. Pay her 12 million a year, and she’s not going to be there very long.”
Continuing, Trump then joked about how bad Margaret Brennan is, noting that she is particularly bad and might be out of a job soon, saying, “But if she’s not already out, I mean, she’s pretty close, I would say she’s pretty close, but, the other ones too. The ‘Face the Nation.’ The woman on the ‘Face the Nation’ is so bad.”
Reese then asked if the host to whom he was referring is Kristen Welker, and Trump responded, “Well, now Kristen Welker is NBC.” Reese told him, seemingly prodding him to continue with comments on the media, “You know better than I do.” Trump added, implying that Welker too is terrible, “Kristen Welker is NBC. She’s, you know.”
Leavitt then chimed in and noted that the host about whom the two had been speaking was “Margaret Brennan,” and Reese said, “Margaret Brennan, right.” Trump then asked, setting Leavitt up for her entertaining comment, “Margaret Brennan. What do you think of her?” Leavitt chimed in, getting in her one line jab, “She’s stupid. You can put that on the record.” Trump added, “She’s nasty.”
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Leavitt agreed, and then interview then turned to a discussion of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s handling of Margaret Brennan and her show on CBS News, with Reese noting, “He goes on there a lot. And every time he does a really, he’s intense about it.” Trump noted, “Because he’s good and he’s smart.”
Trump then continued that the woke media is full of hatred directed the way of his administration by the media complex, saying, “But the level of hatred, I’m surprised he goes on there, the level of hatred when they’re asking the question.”
Watch Margaret Brennan shout at Rubio during one particularly nasty interview here:
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