MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump has made numerous derisive comments about female reporters, but White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders won’t say whether he crossed the line. Defending the president during a talk hosted by POLITICO, Sanders said on Tuesday [12-11-18] that male reporters had been equally targeted by Trump’s vitriol and derision during press briefings…Trump has personally mocked many reporters in the two years of his presidency. During a Rose Garden briefing in October, he told ABC’s Cecilia Vega: ‘I know you’re not thinking. You never do.’ He has also attacked male reporters, getting into an infamous tussle with CNN’s Jim Acosta last month that led to Acosta’s White House access being temporarily denied. But the president seems to have targeted female reporters in particular, and his comments demeaning or otherwise belittling women journalists go back nearly two years. Early in his presidency, Trump commented on an Irish reporter’s appearances, calling her over to his desk in an uncomfortable exchange that ricocheted on social media.”
–Matthew Choi, “Sarah Sanders refuses to condemn Trump’s attacks on female journalists,” Politico, December 11, 2018 6:02 pm