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Opinion: Why Trump’s Base Attacks on Kaitlan Collins Demean Us All

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He’s a bitchy little queen. Such a bitchy little queen. The make-up, the cattiness, the whining, and, especially, the resentment of successful women. Example #1001 occurred at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, when Donald Trump told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that she should “smile more,” called her award “fake,” bizarrely, and compared her to actress and trans activist Dylan Mulvaney . It made no sense, but that’s the beautiful thing about being a Karen – you don’t have to make sense, you just have to be aggrieved. And nobody has ever been more aggrieved than our billionaire president. Collins handled the insults with far more graciousness than they deserved, telling Jon Stewart in the following days that she wasn’t surprised by the insults, and saying of the president’s response to her work, “it’s not really about me and I don’t want it to be about my reaction. I think if you let it become about that, then it becomes a back-and-forth between the two of us.” Trump’s attacks on Collin

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