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Trump Tells Reporter To Smile More

He’s scared

By Liza Donnelly, Feb 04, 2026

I wasn’t going to write about politics today, but something really got to me.

Yesterday, in a shocking interaction, Trump berated CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins. We have seen him do this to a degree with other female reporters. He has typically been polite to Collins (unlike other female reporters who ask questions he doesn’t like) but yesterday was horrible. Of course it had to do with the fact that Collins was asking about the Epstein Files. He lost it.

He’s scared.

“It’s time for the country to get onto something else…. something people care about.”

Trump claimed he was cleared, and suggested he had been targeted. You could see he was trying to remain calm, but then snapped.

Ironically, and for me what was the sure sign he is scared: Trump accused Collins of never smiling, ever. This is such a sexist and misogynistic attitude towards women. It is a common remark—I’ve gotten it many times on the street. It is an attitude that says we are only on this planet to be pleasing to men. I find it personally offensive.

Similar to calling a female reporter “piggy,” as he did a few weeks ago.

This is what we are seeing being set up in the administration, and how they want the US to be. A system that does not value women, and those who are in the administration are complicit in this patriarchal arrangement. It’s disgusting. The women he has on his administration are basically there for show. They may be smart people, but I do not believe they are valued, and will be discarded at a moment’s notice. Please watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRGVFAca_IA

The Epstein Files are a blaring, horrendous, criminal extension of this attitude towards women. I cannot wait for it to be completely exposed as the corrupt, sick network it is. And see the perpetrators behind bars.

Here is another drawing from a few years ago.

I meant to do a post about dogs, since the Westminster was yesterday. I’ll share tomorrow!

Thanks for being here. You guys are the best. I have hope, we can do this.

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