{"id":43729,"date":"2026-02-04T16:24:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=43729"},"modified":"2026-02-04T16:24:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:24:37","slug":"trump-berates-female-reporter-pressing-him-on-epstein-for-not-smiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=43729","title":{"rendered":"Trump Berates Female Reporter Pressing Him on Epstein for Not Smiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Trump Berates Female Reporter Pressing Him on Epstein for Not Smiling<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p><span>Back<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-8p0vwh\">Trump Berates Female Reporter Pressing Him on Epstein for Not Smiling<\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"css-qsd3hm\">President Trump scolded CNN\u2019s chief White House correspondent, Kaitlan Collins, after she asked about the latest release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein, calling her \u201cthe worst reporter.\u201d<\/h4>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen you smile. I\u2019ve known you for 10 years. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen a smile on your face.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m asking you about survivors of Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s \u2014\u201d \u201cYou know why you\u2019re not smiling? Because you know you\u2019re not telling the truth.\u201d \u201cOn the Epstein files, you talked about Democrats who were in there \u2014 Elon Musk was also in there. And so was your commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, and correspondence that he had with him. Did you read those new files that were published by the Department of Justice?\u201d \u201cI have a lot of things I\u2019m doing, you know? A lot of things. I don\u2019t know, you mentioned two names. I\u2019m sure they\u2019re fine. Otherwise, it would have been major headlines.\u201d \u201cA lot of women who are survivors of Epstein\u2019s are unhappy with those redactions that came out. Some of them \u2014 entire witness interviews are totally blacked out.\u201d \u201cWell, they\u2019re also unhappy with the fact that they thought they released too much. You know, I heard that. And you\u2019re telling me something else, no.\u201d \u201cBut I think it\u2019s time now for the country to maybe get on to something else, like health care and something that people care about. Yeah, what did you say? Go ahead, CNN.\u201d \u201dWhat would you say to the survivors \u2014\u201c \u201cYou are the worst reporter. No wonder \u2014 CNN has no ratings because of people like you. You know, she\u2019s a young woman. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen you smile. I\u2019ve known you for 10 years. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen a smile on your face.\u201d \u201dI\u2019m asking you about survivors \u2014\u201c \u201dYou know why you\u2019re not smiling? Because you know you\u2019re not telling the truth. And you\u2019re, you\u2019re a very dishonest organization. And they should be ashamed of you.\u201d \u201cThese are survivors of a sexual abuser.\u201d \u201dShe never smiles.\u201c<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-hple31\">President Trump scolded CNN\u2019s chief White House correspondent, Kaitlan Collins, after she asked about the latest release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein, calling her \u201cthe worst reporter.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Monika Cvorak<\/p>\n<p>February 4, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: Trump Berates Female Reporter Pressing Him on Epstein for Not Smiling transcript Back transcript Trump Berates Female Reporter Pressing Him on Epstein for Not Smiling President Trump scolded CNN\u2019s chief White House correspondent, Kaitlan Collins, after she asked about the latest release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein, calling her \u201cthe worst<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[22814,3703,5966,1961,14936,22815,81],"class_list":{"0":"post-43729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-berates","9":"tag-epstein","10":"tag-female","11":"tag-pressing","12":"tag-reporter","13":"tag-smiling","14":"tag-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}