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Trump Creeps Out His Critics With Comments About Female Reporter

Jun 28, 2017  •  Post A Comment

Donald Trump sparked a social media freakout when he took time out from a phone call with new Irish leader Leo Varadkar to admire a female reporter who was working the event in the Oval Office.

RTE Washington correspondent Caitriona Perry, one of a number of members of the Irish press who were on hand to cover the phone call, posted a video of the incident on her Twitter account, which you can see by clicking here.

In the clip, Trump can be seen on the phone when he motions for Perry to come up to his desk and offers a series of comments presumably intended as compliments. “She has a nice smile on her face,” he tells Varadkar. “I bet she treats you well.” Perry and others respond with mild laughter and Perry walks away from Trump’s desk.

Perry calls it a “bizarre moment” in her Twitter post, which you can see below. But other Twitter users framed the incident in far more negative terms. Here are a few samples from the comments in response to Perry’s post:

  • “It’s hell to be objectified. When POTUS has no fear of doing that surrounded by cameras… I’m so sorry. Your success is more than a smile.”
  • “Remarks like that in workplace R completely inappropriate. There’s a time & place: discussing one’s attractiveness in workplace is wrong.”
  • “SO very gross! OMG! I am so sad for all the women who must interact with him. SO DISGUSTING! #notmypresident #NOCLASS #PREDATOR”
  • “Do these women have any dignity?… he’s so gross, I’d feign sickness not to see or hear him”
  • “His wife defends him. She should be forced to be around him at all times. The other females have real work to do. Hope Colbert caught that.”
  • “Repulsive. This sexual predator is using his power to blatantly abuse a woman on-camera. Anyone who thinks this is ok needs to wake the F up”
  • “I couldn’t understand what he said. He’s on the level of a 14 yr old boy. Gross.”

11 Comments

  1. Seriously? Trump compliments someone’s smile and people get up in arms? I’ve gotten compliments at work. I say thank you.

    • Yeah…you must work for Burger King. In a professional environment that could be considered actionable. In a legal sense. People have been sued for less. Trump is a creep. Period.

  2. SENSITIVE TO COMPLIMENTS? A LITTLE. GET A LIFE, IT WAS A COMPLIMENT. AND YOU REDUCE IT TO “YOUR SUCCESS IS MORE THAN A SMILE?” COME ON PEOPLE GET ON WITH IT. THERE IS IMPORTANT BUSINESS IN WASHINGTON YOU SHOULD BE COVERING.

    • YEAH! THERE IS A LOT OF IMPORTANT BUSINESS IN WASHINGTON THAT SHOULD BE COVERED. LET’S START WITH THE TRUMP CAMP’S COLLUSION WITH RUSSIA AND THE HACK, KUSHNER’S INAPPROPRIATE DEALINGS, JEFF SESSIONS’ OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE AND PERJURY & THE FUNDS THE TRUMP FOUNDATION BASICALLY STOLE FROM SICK KIDS.

  3. Liberalism is nothing short of a mental illness. This is proof. These people who are complaining about this are the same people who would freak out if someone held the door open to them allowing them to enter a room or building first.

  4. Well see Trump is being singled out here. But for good reason. He doesn’t get the same “slack” we cut other folks because number one, he’s the President, and number two, he just incessantly demonstrates really unpleasant character traits and so even an attempt at a “benign” interaction with a member of the press that doesn’t get a check signed by a Murdoch comes across as bizarre at best, creepy at worst.

    It’s true he can’t win with a lot of folks out there, me included, but it’s his own fault. I’m convinced by now any “come to Jesus” moment for this human being would require Jesus himself, and even that might not work.

  5. My fellow Democrats are really grasping at straws. I’d be willing to bet If Trump said, “The sky is blue” he would incite a backlash from those that claimed he was racist (or something), calling him out for his inappropriate comment about color. We lost. We need to re-group but we don’t need to make stupid comments that makes us look like sore losers. If Democrats have any hope of taking back the White House we need to stop doing and saying things that are just going to galvanize the Republicans. If we don’t stop overreacting, we are going to lose more seats in Congress next year and Trump is going to be re-elected.

  6. You’re right – had this been anyone else, it would have never been mentioned. It seemed like a nice, relaxed moment, he tosses out his ‘compliment’, the type of ‘compliment’ that most people would have been given the benefit of the doubt regarding their sincerity.
    But that’s the thing, it wasn’t anybody else. It was Donald Trump, a man who has repeatedly proven that he’s an 11 on a 1 to 10 scale for smarminess. Look at his body language and the way he talked about her on the phone. That’s classic Trump – all sickeningly sweet to start with. He’ll be firing off toilet tweets within 24 hours accusing her of some “fake news” bullshit because she reported the whole incident in an unfavorable light that’s resulted in unfavorable press. How dare she?
    People aren’t “up in arms” over a “compliment”. They’re up in arms because they’ve just seen their President try to hit on a foreign news correspondent IN THE MIDDLE OF A PRESS EVENT. I’m sorry but that wasn’t acceptable behavior before Trump moved into the White House and it isn’t acceptable now that he’s there.
    But, hey, you go on and keep defending the guy as he wastes far more of our tax money to visit his own hotels & resorts, pocketing the money the US government spends there to lodge the Presidential support staff, Secret Service, etc. when Trump holds court down in Florida.. This man has only ever had a single interest – what’s in it for me? All of the middle class and lower middle class people who are practically worshiping the guy are the ones he’s continually hurting the most. They got him elected and Trump’s treating them with all of the gratitude & respect he’s always had for people who aren’t billionaires.
    NONE.
    We’re all just little ATM’s to this guy. The Trump Uni scam used Donald’s very public face and over-inflated record as a real estate ‘mogul’ to get people who are struggling financially to put their faith and ca$h in Trump, only to find themselves worse off than before they started.
    Kind of like the country.

    • Well said. The delusional folks above must have forgotten that the scumbag we are forced to call president has a history of sexual assault claims, boasts about grabbing women by the pussy and seems to have a thing for reporters (see Selina Scott or Megyn Kelly). The guy objectifies women, crosses lines and its safe to say does much worse.

      Lest we forget he interrupted a damn call with a world leader for this. At least when Bill Clinton was getting a beej he was doing it on his own time.

  7. We Americans men born in close proximity to WWII grew up being taught civility. Don’t interrupt, remove you hat indoors, open doors for women, carry their packages, drop women off close to the door and then go park the car and so on. We also were taught the when mom or any other women took the time to fix their hair, apply makeup, carefully select their dresses and shoes – you better notice and acknowledge that their goal – being noticed and complemented worked! What the hell happened? Why did liberal women kill civility? Now we have a 180 degree opposite set of rules. From holding a door to complimenting a woman is now nearly a crime! My mother died a year ago but she never failed to say think you when a door was held for her or a compliment given. If you see those things as an insult – most of the world would see you as ridiculous!

  8. Clinton was on “free time”? So it was ok to have sex in the Oval Office? Was it ok for Obama to allow the Russians to attempt to interfere with the elections? If the purpose of the Russians was to help Trump win, why didn’t Obama step up to help Hillary? Or did he actually want her to lose and Trump to win? When Hillary complained that the Democrats didn’t supply money and data to her campaign, was that why Bill met with Loretta Lynch on the Tarmac? Was Lynch refusing to unmask data on the Trump campaigners and that was why Bill wanted to meet with her?

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