President Donald Trump blew up at ABC News reporter Rachel Scott on Monday after she pressed him about a clear contradiction over whether he’d release footage from a recent boat strike — something he said last week he’d have “no problem” doing.
Now, suddenly, he had a problem. During a roundtable tied to a farm aid package, Scott asked the president why he suddenly wouldn’t release the video. Instead of answering, Trump insisted he “never said that,” brushing off his earlier comment as if it didn’t exist.
When Scott pushed back, he snapped.
“You are the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place,” he shot back, before escalating even further. “Let me just tell you, you are an obnoxious – actually a terrible reporter.”
The exchange added yet another entry to Trump’s long-running pattern of targeting women journalists who ask tough questions.
Minutes later, Trump veered off into a complaint about Democrats supposedly making it difficult to confirm U.S. Attorneys. The timing was notable — his pick for New Jersey, Alina Habba, had just resigned after a federal appeals court ruled she was serving unlawfully.
But the moment that hung in the air was the one Trump tried to bulldoze: a simple question about his own words, met not with an answer, but an insult.
Watch the full exchange in the clip below:
