Trump Expresses Wish That Women Reporters at White House Were More Like '50s Housewives

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Source: daily beast




Published May. 05, 2020 9:31AM ET
Reuters / Carlos Barria

President Donald Trump has singled out two “angry” women reporters and suggested that he wished they acted more like demure housewives from the 1950s. In a wild interview with the New York Post, Trump complained that he found two female CBS News journalists—Weijia Jiang and Paula Reid—particularly irritating during his recent streak of coronavirus press briefings. “It wasn’t Donna Reed, I can tell you that,” Trump said, referring to the screen star best known for playing Mary Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life and starring as a TV housewife in the eponymous sitcom of the ’50s and ’60s. Trump went on: “Paula Reid, she’s sitting there and I say, ‘How angry. I mean, What’s the purpose?’ They’re not even tough questions, but you see the attitude of these people, it’s like incredible.” In response, Reid tweeted Tuesday morning: “President Trump tells @nypost I am nothing like 50’s American archetypal mom Donna Reed. Fact-check: True.” For her part, Jiang responded “The President told me to be ‘nice and easy’ three out of the last four times I asked him a question.”

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Whats the point of Trump acting like a school yard bully all the time??

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[aquamarina]

1. What a fucking snowflake. n/a

[BComplex]

27. This is REALLY showing his mental age.

He's just an old dude that never moved forward when the rest of the world did.

[question everything]

2. And I wish that Presidents behaved more presidential, would strive to unite and comfort us

than to see everything through the"I" prism

[hamsterjill]

5. Great post!!

+1000

[Haggis for Breakfast]

32. And I wish he'd behave more like the president of the 50s

Eisenhower would NEVER have tolerated the incompetence we have seen from this WH.

Ike was the ULTIMATE patriot.

[SomewhereInTheMiddle]

39. My thoughts exactly ...

Truman and Ike. Better than what we have now by far.

[TreadSoftly]

47. I second your second. Behaving like a human being would be a start.

[turbinetree]

3. Well to all the female reporters change the subject and ask how being a sexual predators got you

in the the position your in now by gloating.........and having you lie about a virus while gloating.....and how gloating just like he did on the Access Hollywood tape and how you have gloated on the country having the most deaths caused by the virus....that has killed a lot people that were born in the middle part of the last century............to hell with being nice, he's not nice..............after all gloating is still gloating...............

[Stallion]

4. Yeah and We Wish We had a President with the Integrity, Courage and Intelligence of Eisenhower Too

plus he was a better golfer and didn't cheat

[spiderpig]

6. Just when I think I couldn't hate this cretin even more...

I'm going back to bingeing on '30s Technicolor movies to cheer me up and make me forget about this demented fuck.

[SomewhereInTheMiddle]

40. Try "My Man Godfrey" ...

... not in technicolor, but hard to beat for optimism and class. And it is in the public domain so it is free in various places on the net.

[spiderpig]

44. Thank you for that recommendation!

I don't know if you are old enough to remember Norman Cousins, editor of the Saturday Review.

Around 40 years ago he developed a brain tumor, and his prognosis was 2 or 3 months. He decided to spend his remaining time watching Marx Brothers movies and enjoying himself.

He survived for several years. Seize the day!

[hamsterjill]

7. Time for these reporters to ramp it up!

It bothers him...so bother him, ladies!!!

Phuck Trump!

[IcyPeas]

19. i don't really think it bothers him....

i think he loves it. these "clashes" get better ratings and afterward better headlines... tweets, etc. HE LOVES THIS. It's all an act ladies and gentlemen.

[erpowers]

23. Wondering About That Idea

While reading through the snippet at Daily Beast I wondered if his statements was just part of a show. I did not think he actually loved getting into confrontation with the female reporters, but I did wonder if he was making those comments partly to excite his base. However, it is very possible that female reporters asking him questions really bothers him.

[dalton99a]

8. We are being ruled by depraved low-life scum.

[niyad]

9. Misogynist. Sexist. Sexual predator in chief. And self-loathing women support him, vote for him.

I am so proud of al the strong women who stand up to him. He fears them.

[bucolic_frolic]

10. school yard bully all the time?

Envy. He is so exhausted from trying to live up to his Trumpian expectations of being Trump, that he envies people with more ordinary lives because they don't have that burden.

[empedocles]

11. . . . or trump would prefer 50's compliant 'Golddiggers'

[denem]

15. Took him three goes but he married one,

a (publicly) compliant Golddigger.

[Stuart G]

12. Thank You for posting this...I hesitated a moment...Trump really said this..

Yes, it is out there at other locations. Trump cannot shut up. He proves that all the time. I don't know what else to say. HELP!!! What else is there to say???

[IcyPeas]

20. everything is about generating headlines - and that's just what this is

he KNOWS by saying things like this it will raise eyebrows and get tweets and headlines.

he KNOWS this will piss people (democrats/women) off. He lives for this. this is his M.O.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

13. Donna Reed, the Republican who supported Eugene McCarthy? That Donna Reed?

The one who routinely turned down roles that she didn't think were written strongly enough for women? That one? The anti-war activist? Her?

[rickyhall]

14. Why don't you quit acting like a dick, Mr Prezdent? Maybe like Jimmy Stewart or Henry Fonda.

[CaptYossarian]

29. He isn't acting. He really IS a dick.

Maybe the female reporters should act more like Helen Thomas.

After 10 minutes, he'd be crying.

[Paladin]

16. Donna Reed portrayed a whore in "From Here To Eternity"

If our cretin president was aware of that, would he use her as an example more, or less?

[sop]

17. Trump:"It wasn't Donna Reed, I can tell you that." No, but we could sure use Walter Reed*

at your daily virus briefings instead of you, you fucking moron! My God, what a complete asshole and total imbecile!

(*Major Walter Reed, M.D., U.S. Army.physician, confirmed that yellow fever was transmitted by mosquito, and not direct contact. Reed's insight gave impetus to the new fields of epidemiology and biomedicine.)

[moonseller66]

18. Maybe a donation in the names of Weijia Jiang and Paula Reid

to the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, your local Democratic Election Group, Grassroots Election Support, etc. to keep up the good work?

[DavidDvorkin]

21. He's a king to Republicans

That's the underlying problem.

[maxsolomon]

22. What is the point?

To intimidate and disconcert.

[keithbvadu2]

24. Demure like his soft porn model wife?

Demure like his soft porn model wife?

[Cha]

36. Shove that in Franklin Graham's Gaslighting Fuckface.

[eppur_se_muova]

25. He has the same message for everyone: Know your place. nt

[raging moderate]

26. Laughing too hard to answer.

[Sloumeau]

28. Apparently, Donald Trump thinks it still *is* the 1950s.

He was born in 1946, which means that he was 10 years old in 1956. Yes, Trump wishes that all women were like his mommy was when he was 10. That idiot is stuck in time.

[Totally Tunsie]

45. Yeah, she looks nice and homey.

[Marthe48]

30. I wish traitor had never been born

can you imagine the world without him?

[oasis]

31. Keep holding Orange Jumpsuit's feet to the fire. Good job ladies.

[Blasphemer]

33. We'll see just how low is numbers with women voters can go come November... nt

[ProfessorGAC]

34. Donna Stone Was Not What He Seems To Think

Said this twice already.
Mrs. Stone ran the family & was the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Her doctor husband knew it, too.
These female reporters actually WERE acting like Donna Reed.
He can't even keep his lying insults straight!

[Cha]

35. Fuck OFF, Idiotrump

[Yavin4]

37. Donna Reed was not Donna Stone

Donna Reed was not Donna Stone and wanted more socially relevant issues scripted into her hit '50s and '60s TV show, according to her son.

Reed was devoted to family and left her work at the studio, Owen said. Her involvement in Another Mother for Peace, the 1967 anti-Vietnam War organization she co-founded, reflected her interest in national and world affairs and showed a side of her that surprised people who thought she was more like her TV character.

https://www.nonpareilonline.com/news/local/son-remembers-reed-as-a-mother-not-an-actress/article_2bd304ee-6a06-526a-af53-83b86f657aea.html

[ironflange]

38. I'm surprised by this

I'd have thought he'd want them to be more like a cheap Slovenian hooker.

[milestogo]

41. They should wear only cellophane and never speak.

[skypilot]

42. "They're not even tough questions..."

Uh huh.

[Tenngal]

43. and I wish he acted more like previous Presidents???????

[raccoon]

46. Well, Donnie, why aren't you more like Ben Cartwright on Bonanza? Nt