In Reply to: Tuesday afternoon. I'm just beginning to see. * posted by mh on August 18, 2026 at 09:25:39
Critics have fiercely condemned the White House’s highly personal online attack on a CNN journalist who asked Donald Trump an uncomfortable question.
Trump tore into CNN’s senior White House correspondent Kristen Holmes during an Oval Office event on Monday, repeatedly telling her to be quiet, calling her “very disrespectful” and “fake news” and “a loud, boisterous person” after she asked him for comment about Sen. Jon Ossoff’s (D-Ga.) remark about his close relationship with aide Natalie Harp.
The White House’s rapid response account on X shared footage of the exchange and first slammed Holmes as “a disgraceful, humiliating embarrassment to her alleged profession,” called her question a “cheap shot,” and said, “These scumbags are the lowest of the low.”
Then, it got even more personal, writing to the mother of two:
“Someday, your children will come across your disgusting and inhumane question. They will be sickened and embarrassed to have a parent be so callous and vindictive. It’s quite troubling.”