Trump insults female reporter: 'You're not thinking. You never do'

[left-of-center2012]

President Donald Trump insulted a female reporter in the Rose Garden on Monday, telling her she "never" thinks before asking a question, one of several slights to female journalists during a sprawling press conference.

Trump called on Cecilia Vega, a White House reporter for ABC News, before musing about her aloud. "She's shocked that I picked her," said Trump as a flock of staffers behind him — mostly men — smiled or laughed. "She's, like, in a state of shock."

"I'm not," Vega said, rising from her seat. "Thank you, Mr. President."
Trump, apparently mishearing "thank you" as "thinking," responded with a seemingly unprovoked jab: "I know you're not thinking. You never do."

Trump eventually weighed in on his Supreme Court pick's alleged drunkenness in college and high school, with the president exclaiming that he himself would have been a "mess" had he ever developed a drinking habit. "Can you imagine if I had, what a mess I’d be?" Trump said. "I'd be the world's worst."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/10/01/trump-insults-abc-reporter-cecilia-vega-you-never-think/1493105002/

[jcgoldie]

1. That picture

... makes me want to punch everyone in it in the face. Sorry for the violence

[choie]

3. You're not alone jc...

[Ilsa]

2. Completely tone deaf to what's going on.

The bully is losing his hearing, apparently.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. NOW he smiles.

Almost every picture of him for months has been his scowling sullen face.
Then he picks on someone, a woman no less, and has a happy face.