CNN’s Kaitlan Collins just gave Donald Trump a cold, hard, and deeply poised lesson on how to behave like a real grown-up, as opposed to a petulant, whiny toddler.
On Friday, during his hour-long spew of hot air at his White House Correspondents’ Dinner 2.0, Donald Trump launched a particularly vicious attack against Collins, taking a pointed aim at an award she received earlier in the evening for her extensive coverage of the Trump White House and going so far as to compare her to trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney in an especially disgusting light, both towards Collins and Mulvaney.
“I want to personally congratulate CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on receiving her award,” Trump said from the stage on Friday. “It was all about me. It was a fake; she shouldn’t get the award; it was a fake. But I didn’t mind. I said, ‘Kaitlan, congratulations.’ But it was fake; there’s no question about it.”
Last night, Collins sat down with Jon Stewart for an episode of The Daily Show, where she finally publicly addressed the President’s blatant attacks against her, confirming that she was “not surprised” that the President went for her throat in front of a room full of her friends and colleagues.