December 10 2025, 08:15 
Donald Trump hurled insults at yet another reporter this week, calling ABC News Senior Political Correspondent Rachel Scott “obnoxious” and “terrible.”
Scott asked Trump about his previous statement that he’d have “no problem” releasing footage of the September 2nd boat strike in which the U.S. military killed two survivors clinging for life by (allegedly illegally) striking a second time.
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He denied ever saying it, muttering that the claim was “ABC fake news,” despite there being footage of the moment he said it. When she continued to press him after he said he’d support whatever Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth chooses, he began insulting her.
“You are the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place,” he said, adding that she is “a terrible reporter.”
“It’s always the same thing with you,” he griped.
Trump lashes out at another reporter: Let me just tell you, you are an obnoxious—actually, a terrible reporter. pic.twitter.com/0vwwbkN5OP
— Acyn (@Acyn) December 8, 2025
Scott didn’t take the moment lying down. She has since posted videos proving the president’s flip-flop and also showing the string of insults.
Experts in the laws of war have said Hegseth’s alleged order to kill any survivors of the boat strike off the coast of Venezuela amounts to murder.
The administration has since been scrambling to contain the fallout and insulate Trump from the blunder.