Donald Trump and his allies have made it clear in the past that they’re not big fans of CBS News reporter Margaret Brennan, the host of Face the Nation and the moderator of last year’s vice presidential debate.
In Trump’s interview with the Daily Caller, which was published last weekend, the president took more shots at the CBS anchor.
Full transcript of my hour-long interview with President Trump in the Oval Office is now live via @DailyCaller:https://t.co/PQUHuiPcsv pic.twitter.com/iAb5CQKOmf
— Reagan Reese (@reaganreese_) September 1, 2025
At one point in the interview, the reporter Reagan Reese of the conservative Daily Caller started talking to Trump about her publication, which the president and the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, compared positively to CBS News and other networks. Then they took shots at Margaret Brennan:
TRUMP: People don’t realize how big our market is. You know? It’s like if they had Nora O’Donnell, anybody could do this. You could take 50% of the women off the street, they’d do just as good. Pay her 12 million a year, and she’s not going to be there very long. But if she’s not already out, I mean, she’s pretty close, I would say she’s pretty close, but, the other ones too. The ‘Face the Nation.’ The woman on the ‘Face the Nation’ is so bad.
REESE: Kristen Welker, right?
TRUMP: Well, now Kristen Welker is NBC.
REESE: You know better than I do.
TRUMP: Kristen Welker is NBC. She’s, you know.
LEAVITT: Margaret Brennan [Leavitt refers to the host of ‘Face the Nation.’]
REESE: Margaret Brennan, right.
TRUMP: Margaret Brennan. What do you think of her?
LEAVITT: She’s stupid. You can put that on the record.
TRUMP: She’s nasty.
LEAVITT: Yes.
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The argument seems to be that unlike the Daily Caller interview, Brennan sometimes challenges guests on her show.
In the Daily Caller interview, bizarrely, the conversation briefly went off the record while Trump was discussing… Oval Office decorations.
TRUMP: And this is the real deal gold, too. This not, you know. I always say you, there’s never been a paint made, amazing… you’d make a lot of money if you could buy a paint that looked like real gold. When I’m doing interviews, look at the fireplace, when I’m doing interviews, and I’ve got some heads of state. This used to be [inaudible] do you understand? It’s just a plain, flat piece —
[TRUMP and REESE move off the record]
[REESE moves following excerpt from the off the record conversation to on the record]
TRUMP: But see all these paintings, they were in the vaults. These paintings were all in the vault. That’s George Washington, the original. The original Lincoln.
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