WASHINGTON, DC: President Donald Trump was trolled over social media for ridiculing White House correspondent Kate Sullivan as she referred to her notes while posing a question on Friday, February 21, reported Mediaite.
The exchange took place moments after the 78-year-old commander-in-chief participated in the ceremonial swearing-in of Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick in the Oval Office.
Trump’s interaction with Bloomberg reporter Kate Sullivan
While taking questions from reporters after the ceremony, Trump called out Bloomberg News representative Sullivan for engaging in the standard practice of referring to notes while raising an issue.
“We are reporting that you were signing a memo later to counter Digital Service taxes?” Sullivan inquired of the POTUS, to which he replied, “Well, will you speak–. I mean, what are you doing, reading it?”
As Sullivan acknowledged that she was indeed reading from her notes, Trump jibed, “Can’t you just say it without having to read it?”
The correspondent was well up for the challenge, saying, “Oh, sure. Bloomberg. We’re reporting that you’re expected to sign tariffs or a memo later on tariffs on digital taxes. Is there any idea how high you might go with those tariffs?”
“We are going to be doing that. Digital. What they’re doing to us in other countries is terrible with digital. So we’ll be announcing that,” noted Trump, before confirming with an aide that he would be signing the memo on the same day.
