{"id":335393,"date":"2025-12-07T17:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T17:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/335393\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T17:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T17:01:11","slug":"kaitlan-collins-responds-to-trump-calling-her-stupid-and-nasty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/335393\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaitlan Collins responds to Trump calling her \u2018stupid and nasty\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

CNN\u2019s Chief White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins<\/a>, the target of one of President Donald Trump\u2019s Truth Social rants, has responded. <\/p>\n

In a Truth Social post, Trump\u2019s criticism began with misspelling her name, identifying her as \u201cCaitlin Collin\u2019s of Fake News CNN, always Stupid and Nasty.\u201d <\/p>\n

Trump apparently was angry at Collins asking about construction costs for the White House ballroom, according to Deadline. <\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI said because it is going to be double the size, and the quality of finishes and interiors has been brought to the highest level. Also, the column SPAN has been substantially increased for purposes of viewing,\u201d Trump wrote. <\/p>\n

Trump said the project is \u201cunder budget and ahead of schedule, as my jobs always are,\u201d adding \u201cand seldom reported, there are no taxpayer dollars involved. It is being fully paid by private donations.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to The Hill, <\/a>the White House announced in July that the ballroom, adjacent to the East Wing, would cost $200 million. Later, Trump said it would cost $300 million, then a White House said in late October the price was $350 million, according to ABC News. <\/a><\/p>\n

Collins, anchor of The Source with Kaitlan Collins and an Alabama native, said her query had nothing to do with the ballroom. <\/p>\n

\u201cTechnically my question was about Venezuela,\u201d Collins wrote on her Instagram story, in reference to the administration\u2019s bombing of alleged drug smuggling vessels off the coast of the Latin American country.<\/p>\n

Collins had asked Trump about accepting FIFA\u2019s peace prize at the same time as strikes against alleged Venezuelan drug boats.<\/p>\n

On her Friday program, Collins did note that Trump had fired the architect overseeing the ballroom project.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt comes as we know that the size and the cost of this ballroom have ballooned, though they still maintain all of it is being paid for with private donations,\u201d Collins said. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the first time Trump has singled out Collins. <\/p>\n

In January he said she asked \u201cnot a very smart question.\u201d<\/a> He also called her a \u201cthird rate, low ratings reporter\u201d back in March, according to The Daily Beast. <\/a><\/p>\n

Trump has also faced recent criticism for derogatory remarks about other reporters.<\/p>\n

In November, Trump lashed out against a New York Times reporter<\/a> over an article claiming the president is showing \u201csigns of fatigue,\u201d calling her a journalist \u201cwho is ugly, both inside and out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Days before that, Trump insulted Bloomberg reporter Catherine Lucey<\/a> after she asked him whether there was any incriminating information on the president in the Epstein files.<\/p>\n

\u201cQuiet, quiet piggy,\u201d<\/a> Trump told Lucey after she asked the question on Air Force One.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CNN\u2019s Chief White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins, the target of one of President Donald Trump\u2019s Truth Social rants,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[169435,23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-335393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-169435","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}