![]() ![]() Don’t talk to me.” When Trump’s administration tried to make Collins move to the back of the briefing room ![]() “No, not CNN please,” he added when Collins continued to press him. “The problem is, you don’t write the truth.” I have a good relationship with Kim Jong Un and I hope he’s OK.”īut when Collins attempted to ask a follow up, he shot her down and called CNN “fake news.” I mean, we have a good relationship with North Korea. We have a good relationship with North Korea - as good as you can have. Don’t talk to me.’Īfter CNN reported on North Korean President Kim Jong Un’s health in 2020, Trump attacked the network and Collins during a press conference for what he said he believed was incorrect reporting.Ĭollins asked Trump if he had been in contact with North Korea, to which he replied, “I don’t want to say. We will take in billions and billions of dollars, far more than the cost of the wall,” Trump said.Ĭollins attempted to ask a follow-up question about that trade deal, but Trump had already moved on to a question from another reporter. “I just told you that we just made a trade deal. “A very nice question so beautifully asked, even though I just answered it,” Trump replied. So how can you say that you are not failing on that promise to your supporters?” “You just said earlier that the wall could be made of steel and right now our government is shut down over a demand from your administration that the American taxpayer pay for the wall. “And that wall was going to be made of concrete,” Collins continued. “You ran your campaign promising supporters that Mexico is going to pay for the wall,” Collins began before Trump interrupted her. Trump mocked Collins at a 2019 press conference when she pressed him on statements he had made about his administration’s plans for a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border amid the partial government shutdown caused by a standoff between lawmakers and the White House over funding for the wall. The incident sparked outrage from Collins’ fellow White House reporters and her own network, which issued a statement calling the move “retaliatory in nature and not indicative of an open and free press.” ‘A very nice question so beautifully asked’ Later, Collins said White House communications director Bill Shine and White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called her into Shine’s office and told her she could not attend the upcoming press conference because her questions had been inappropriate. In 2018, Collins was barred from attending a press conference in the Rose Garden after asking questions about Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, and Russian President Vladimir Putin while she was on duty as the pool reporter.Īt a photo-op in the Oval Office, Collins called out several questions to Trump as White House staffers ushered the press out of the room. Here are some of those more memorable moments: When Collins was banned from a Rose Garden press conference ![]()
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