President Donald Trump has developed a history of going after women journalists, often using personal attacks against women who ask him questions he doesn’t like or report on him in unflattering ways. This time, two Fox News hosts became targets for the president in a social media post.
Trump attacks ‘Fox News Sunday’ host after guest criticizes Iran war
Trump attacked two Fox News women journalists by name in a Monday evening post on social media.
“Tell Shannon Bream of FoxNews that it’s not the Save Act, it’s the Save America Act, a big difference!” Trump posted on Truth Social.
Bream, a mainstay on Fox News, is the first woman to serve as anchor for Fox News Sunday; she’s also the network’s chief legal correspondent. Trump further called out Bream for interviewing Rep. Jake Auchincloss, D-Mass., who recently appeared on the show to discuss the war with Iran and called out “the failure of the president’s war thus far.”
Trump criticized Bream’s interview techniques.
“When she insists on having lightweight Democrat Congressmen, such as Jake Auchincloss, on her not very hard hitting show, she should correct them when they spew out Democrat propaganda and lies,” Trump posted. “She never does.”
Trump calls on Fox News to remove contributor who regularly criticizes him
Trump saved most of his vitriol, however, for Jessica Tarlov, a Democratic strategist who is one of the hosts of Fox News’s The Five and the only host of the show to criticize the president regularly.
“For Fox executives only, take Jessica Tarlov off the air,” Trump said in an apparent attempt to make Tarlov lose her job. “She is, from her voice, to her lies, and everything else about her, one of the worst ‘personalities’ on television, a real loser! People cannot stand watching her,” Trump complained.
He has previously gone after Tarlov, even calling into The Five on a day when she wasn’t there and telling her cohosts that he “wasn’t a fan” of hers, adding, “I think your show would be better without her.”
Trump’s growing history of personal insults against women in journalism
Trump’s attacks against Bream and Tarlov are the latest in a long string of personal insults he has hurled against women reporters. In November, Trump chastised a female reporter who questioned him about Jeffrey Epstein, snapping “quiet piggy” at the reporter. In separate incidents, Trump repeatedly called a woman journalist “stupid” for questioning him concerning the fatal shooting of a National Guard member and wounding of another in Washington, D.C. He also called New York Times reporter Katie Rogers, “a third rate reporter who is ugly, both inside and out,” after she wrote an unflattering story about his health. In December, Trump called ABC News journalist Rachel Scott “obnoxious” and “terrible” for calling him out on not following through with a promise to release video of a controversial strike against an alleged drug-smuggling boat.
As Trump struggles to push his agenda with a stalled voting ID bill and an ongoing war in Iran, the president appears to lash out at those who criticize him. And yet again, his ire is targeted at women journalists, adding to the long list of female reporters whom Trump has attacked in highly personal ways.