“This is sick shit. This is sick,” Wallace said on Monday’s broadcast of her show, “Deadline: White House.”
Wallace reeled off a long list of times that Trump has insulted women reporters in recent weeks, from calling CNN’s Kaitlan Collins “stupid and nasty” to telling a Bloomberg reporter, “Quiet, piggy.”
The anchor then suggested how other reporters in the room should respond if Trump does it again, asking them to think if “there’s something else they should do the next time he calls a female journalist ‘obnoxious,’ ‘terrible,’ ‘stupid,’ ‘nasty,’ ‘stupid,’ ‘ugly,’ ‘terrible,’ ‘insubordinate’ or ‘piggy.’”
“Because maybe if Donald Trump can’t live without being on TV and maybe if they said, ‘You know what, we’re going to have some solidarity,’ like they did with him wanting to change the names of oceans,” she added.
“We’re either going to normalize this and then you’re going to hear all sorts of prominent people calling women all sorts of names. I’m sure by the time I get off TV, I’ll have a few of those myself,” Wallace argued. “But we’re either going to normalize this and usher in an era of unprecedented misogyny or that press corps is going to act as one and say, ‘No more.’”
Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) agreed with Wallace, noting that Trump lashes out “when he gets caught in a lie.”