- President Donald Trump berated veteran CNN correspondent Kristen Holmes during an Oval Office event honoring a 16-year-old lifeguard and a 10-year-old boy. Trump repeatedly told Holmes to be quiet, called her fake news, and attempted to recruit the children into agreeing that her questions were disrespectful.
- Holmes had asked about reported food and supply shortages aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, an aircraft carrier deployed in the Middle East for more than 265 days.
- “Quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet! You're very disrespectful in front of this young man," Trump said. Turning to the 10-year-old, he asked: "Don't you find her disrespectful?" Trump continued on his tirade, “You’re a loud, boisterous person. You’re fake news, be quiet!”
- Trump complained about the network’s reporting on conditions aboard the Lincoln, which will soon be relieved after nearly a year at sea — a deployment repeatedly extended due to the war Trump started with Iran in February. "That was a fake CNN report. Over the years, we had them out there much longer. An admiral told me, 'I have been on ships much longer than that, sir.' And people on the Lincoln say it's beautifully taken care of," he said.
- The exchange follows a documented pattern of Trump singling out and insulting female journalists who press him with critical questions.
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