What should journalists do when President Trump attacks them?
President Donald Trump attacks the press on pretty much a daily basis, lashing out at reporters who ask questions he doesn’t like.
He told one reporter to be quiet while calling her “piggy.” He has called other reporters “nasty,” “stupid,” “ugly,” “obnoxious” and terrible at their jobs. Often, he focuses on women. (The Wrap’s Corbin Bolies writes, “Here Are All the Times Trump Attacked Female Reporters in the Last 30 Days.”) But no one is seemingly spared from his wrath when he gets a tough question.
The ramifications of this go far beyond the reporters Trump is childishly trying to insult.
Related Knowledge Center: The White House vs. the press
Whether it’s the Des Moines Register’s publication of an unfavorable election poll, a routine edit of a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, or the Associated Press’s decision in its authoritative stylebook to continue to use “Gulf of Mexico,” Donald Trump and the White House have used executive authority and legal reprisals in an effort to punish and suppress press coverage that runs contrary to the administration’s preferred narratives.
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