‘Sick’: Nicolle Wallace rips Trump’s ‘verbal violence’ toward women in profane takedown

President Donald Trump once again insulted a female journalist to her face in the Oval Office, and MS NOW host Nicolle Wallace is now calling on White House reporters to stand up for their colleagues.

On Monday, Trump called ABC News’ Rachel Scott “obnoxious” after she asked him a question about his prior promise to release the video of the controversial Sept. 2 strike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea (which he has since recanted). After he insulted Scott, the president deferred to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on the matter of the video.

“Let me just tell you, you are an obnoxious — a terrible, actually a terrible reporter,” Trump said. “And it’s always the same thing with you. I told you, whatever Pete Hegseth wants to do is okay with me.”

During the Monday episode of her show “Deadline: White House,” Wallace urged the press to “never normalize the verbal violence” Trump has been known to heap onto women in the media. She then recounted multiple recent instances of Trump insulting female reporters.

“December 6th he called Kaitlin Collins ‘stupid and nasty.’ On November 27th he said ‘are you stupid’ To CBS journalist Nancy Cordes. On November 26th, he called the New York Times’ Katie Rogers ‘ugly.’ On November 18th, he called ABC’s Mary Bruce ‘terrible and insubordinate’ — to whom I’m not sure — November 14th, he told a Bloomberg reporter, ‘quiet, piggy,’: Wallace said.

“This is sick s——. This is sick. And anyone in the room is in the room to do a job for their viewers or their readers,” she continued. “But they should go home tonight and think about whether their sisters or their daughters, or their moms, or their sons or their husbands, or their fathers think that there’s something else they should do the next time he calls a female journalist obnoxious, terrible, stupid, nasty, stupid, ugly, terrible, insubordinate, or piggy.”

“Because maybe if Donald Trump can’t live without being on TV, and maybe if they said, ‘you know what, we’re going to have some solidarity,’ like they did with him wanting to change the names of oceans,’” she added. “We’re either going to normalize this and then you’re going to hear all sorts of prominent people calling women all sorts of names — I’m sure by the time I get off TV I’ll have a few of those myself — but we’re either going to normalize this and usher in an era of unprecedented misogyny, or that press corps is going to act as one and say, ‘no more.’”