President Donald Trump was unpleasantly surprised to see CNN’s Kaitlan Collins waiting for him at the United Nations Headquarters, where he was set to address the General Assembly.
The 80-year-old president arrived Tuesday morning with first lady Melania Trump to find Collins, whose network was banned along with MS NOW and Politico over coverage that angered Trump, and he didn’t seem particularly happy to see her.
“Mr. President, two-thirds of Americans, two-thirds of Americans don’t think the U.S. is winning the war with Iran,” Collins asked as he walked in. “When will it end?”
“It’s an honor to be here,” Trump said, seemingly caught off guard. “I’m surprised that CNN is here covering me.”
“The United Nations allowed us in, sir,” Collins interjected.
“You should not be here covering me,” Trump replied. “You said you weren’t going to cover me. You shouldn’t be covering me.”
“Two-thirds of Americans don’t think that the U.S. is winning the war with Iran,” she repeated. “When will it end?”
“We’re making a lot of progress,” Trump said. “Our country is doing really, really well. Thank you very much.”
After that brief interaction, Collins told her colleagues at “CNN News Central” that Trump was incorrect about her presence at the UN.
“CNN, of course, never said we were not going to cover the president,” Collins said. “It was actually the president who tried to stop us from being able to cover him, certainly in the way that we were doing beforehand. Obviously, that’s being fought in the courts. We will continue to cover the president and his speech, and as he meets with world leaders today, just not with a TV camera from one of the five major networks in the room, as he’s going back and forth with these meetings with world leaders, and there are certainly a slew of them on the agenda that could potentially be newsworthy.”
– YouTube youtu.be
The post Trump seethes after CNN’s Kaitlan Collins ‘surprises’ him at UN: ‘You shouldn’t be here’ appeared first on Raw Story.
