Donald Trump is not best known for his camaraderie with the media. Or his winning ways with women voters. But when you put the two together, the results can be explosive.While it's difficult enough to be a man reporting on The Donald's campaign trail, the experience can be even worse for women. The Washington Post has chronicled some of the most shocking examples: reporters who ask Trump to explain or clarify statements may find themselves suddenly the subject of abuse and insult. Even when Trump seems reasonable in the moment, he may later lash out on social media, and his supporters often follow.
The most notable example is perhaps his primarily one-sided social media feud with Megyn Kelly, which made headlines when it resulted in Trump's withdrawal from the Republican debate on January 28. In the hours immediately before the debate, Kelly, one of the event's moderators, was subject to an astonishing stream of misogynistic slurs from Trump's supporters.
Sadly, Kelly isn't alone in being the target of Trump's special charm. Click through for a selection of his distasteful attacks on strong women.
It's a little unclear what exactly Kasie Hunt — who was actually reporting for MSNBC at the time, not Politico — did to earn Trump's ire. In a segment on immigration rhetoric, she mentioned the GOP pol's stance on immigration in her intro, calling it "populist," but otherwise focused on the strategies of Jeb Bush and 2012 candidate Mitt Romney. Mediaite has a clip of the segment here.
Ana Navarro and S.E. Cupp were members of a December CNN panel discussing the prospects of the various Republican candidates and possible outcomes of the party's convention. Navarro at one point called the possibility of Trump getting his party's nod "very strange," and Cupp described his rhetoric as "divisive" and "incendiary."
Amy Chozick and Maggie Haberman had the gall to write a story for The New York Times about how Hillary Clinton was using Trump's own comments to paint him as a misogynist and build her own appeal with women voters. Not sure where Bill plays into the whole thing, though.
There probably wasn't one specific thing that Trump was mad about when he called out Jill Colvin; the AP reporter had been covering his campaign for months, including his infamous statements about Muslims, by the time he labelled her reporting "fictional garbage."
Donald Trump has been so mean to Megyn Kelly that it's almost become funny, particularly since Kelly seems so unperturbed by his comments.
Trump called Forbes reporter Clare O'Connor a "dummy" after she wrote a story about the number of retail brands that have moved to distance themselves from the candidate after his racist comments about Mexicans. She even penned a follow-up story on his speedy response to the original, only to have him tweet this insult two days later.
Jennifer Rubin is not a Trump fan. She has written stories for The Washington Post that ask whether Donald Trump is "losing it" or "too chicken to debate." The one that caught The Donald's vitriol unfavorably compared Trump's speech at December's Republican Jewish Coalition to that of opponent Marco Rubio.
Arianna Huffington is editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, which announced in July 2015 that it would cover the Trump campaign under the category of "entertainment" rather than politics. Trump did not take it well. In December, the publication reversed its decision, but also noted the campaign's "disastrous impact" and declared that the site would continue to remind the public of what Trump "really represents."
In an interview with Trump aide Sam Clovis, CNN reporter Alisyn Camerota addressed a mistake Trump made while quoting the Bible during a speech at Liberty University, questioning whether he was pandering to a religious audience. Trump had admitted to using cue cards written out for him, which resulted in him misstating the name of a Bible verse.
Trump did not take kindly to Cokie Roberts' and Bill Kristol's criticism on This Week of his apparent mockery of a disabled reporter, but only Roberts got the extra name-calling.
Katy Tur, an NBC reporter covering a Trump rally in December, tweeted that Trump had abruptly ended his remarks after Black Lives Matter protesters disrupted the speech with a chant. CBS reporter Sopan Deb also reported the same information in a longer story, which Trump refuted in this tweet.
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