Journalist April Ryan in an op-ed over the weekend wrote President Trump “relishes” attacking women of color and reserves special “venom” for his insults against them.
Ryan’s op-ed comes after a week in which she says Trump publicly insulted three of the White House press corps’s only black women.
“It’s not hard to find the common denominator,” Ryan wrote after listing the black female reporters Trump addressed this week. “Though there’s hardly anyone — from his predecessors to senators in his own party — he won’t try to shout down with ad hominem insults, Trump relishes, and injects venom into, verbal attacks against women of color.”
Ryan is a White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks and CNN contributor. She has been reporting on the presidency for over 21 years.
Last week, Trump called her out by name without prompting, threatening to revoke her press pass as he called her a “loser” who “doesn’t know what the hell she is doing.” He did so after pulling the press credentials of CNN’s Jim Acosta. – READ MORE