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CNN pushed back furiously after President Donald Trump turned Friday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner into a mocking fest for reporter Kaitlan Collins \u2014 including a jab likening her to a transgender influencer.<\/p>\n

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Trump set his sights on Collins roughly 10 minutes into his remarks at the rescheduled gathering, held at the Waldorf Astoria in Washington, according to The Daily Beast. Collins had just accepted the WHCA’s Award for Excellence in Presidential News Coverage Under Deadline Pressure for her reporting on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s February 2025 Oval Office blowup with Trump \u2014 a prize the president promptly dismissed as “fake.”<\/p>\n

“She’s a young, attractive woman,” Trump told the crowd. “She never smiles. I said, ‘Kaitlan do you ever smile? Smile!’ You have a nice position; you’re at CNN fake news. You should be a happy person. So smile, Kaitlan! Just smile.”<\/p>\n

He then teased that Collins had landed a major sponsorship, before delivering the punchline that it was actually transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney on the Bud Light can, a reference to the 2023 conservative boycott of the beer brand. The riff was met with near silence.<\/p>\n

“That was an appalling hit at our colleague Kaitlan Collins,” responded CNN’s Betsy Klein.<\/p>\n

Chief Media Analyst Brian Stelter flagged that a rebuttal from Collins’ team was already circulating before Trump had wrapped up his remarks. “And the fact that CNN had a statement supporting Kaitlan ready to go… in advance… tells you everything about this media moment,” he wrote.<\/p>\n

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Chief National Affairs Correspondent Jeff Zeleny zeroed in on the contradiction of a commander-in-chief who routinely denounces the press nevertheless spending an entire evening at a dinner devoted to them. “For a president who complains so bitterly about the press, there’s never been anyone in the history of the modern presidency who spends as much time talking to reporters,” Zeleny wrote.<\/p>\n

CNN’s Kristen Holmes delivered the sharpest jab of the night. “In addition to how much he speaks to the press, he is also one of the most unreliable sources at the White House,” she said.<\/p>\n

The smile jab was not new. Trump has publicly hectored Collins about her facial expressions for months, telling her in June she had “hatred in her eyes” and calling her a “corrupt reporter.”<\/p>\n

Friday’s dinner was Trump’s first as president. Originally scheduled for April, it was postponed after a gunman breached security outside the ballroom. The scaled-back redo drew about 700 guests, roughly a quarter of the original crowd. The 80-year-old president was also seen repeatedly closing his eyes for extended stretches as awards were handed out earlier in the evening.<\/p>\n

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