{"id":12291,"date":"2026-04-27T06:25:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T06:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2026\/04\/27\/trump-calls-interviewer-a-disgrace-for-reading-whcd-shooters-manifesto-forbes\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T06:25:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T06:25:45","slug":"trump-calls-interviewer-a-disgrace-for-reading-whcd-shooters-manifesto-forbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2026\/04\/27\/trump-calls-interviewer-a-disgrace-for-reading-whcd-shooters-manifesto-forbes\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Calls Interviewer A ‘Disgrace’ For Reading WHCD Shooter\u2019s Manifesto – Forbes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump criticized CBS News host Norah O\u2019Donnell, calling her a \u201cdisgrace\u201d, after she read out a portion of the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner shooter\u2019s alleged manifesto, where he mentions allegations of sexual misconduct without naming anyone directly.<\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump snapped at CBS anchor Norah O\u2019Donnell when she read out the White House Correspondent Dinner shooter’s alleged manifesto during a 60 Minutes interview.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Key Facts<\/h2>\n
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During the interview<\/a>, Trump was asked about the purported document, in which O\u2019Donnell said he appears to mention a motive and writes, \u201cAdministrative officials, they are targets.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Donnell then read out unsubstantiated allegations made in the manifesto, where he wrote: \u201cI am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The president reacted angrily to the manifesto being read out during the interview, and said he knew O\u2019Donnell would read that, \u201cBecause you\u2019re horrible people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump said, \u201cI am not a rapist, I didn\u2019t rape anybody,\u201d and when the interviewer asked if he thinks the shooter was mentioning him, the president retorted, \u201cI am not a pedophile.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump chastised O\u2019Donnell for reading \u201ccrap\u201d written by \u201csome sick person,\u201d before calling her a \u201cdisgrace\u201d and saying she should be \u201cashamed of yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

What Else Did Trump Say About The Shooting?<\/h2>\n

When O\u2019Donnell asked Trump how worried he was when he realized a gunman had entered the area, Trump responded: \u201cI wasn\u2019t worried. I understand life. We live in a crazy world.\u201d When asked about First Lady Melania Trump\u2019s reaction to the shooting, the president said: \u201cPeople don\u2019t like having it said that they were scared. But who wouldn\u2019t be when you have a situation like that?\u201d The president later said, \u201cMy thought was, \u2018I\u2019ve been through this a couple of times before. She [Melania] has not to this extent. She handled it great.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tangent<\/h2>\n

The president also said he wants the dinner to be rescheduled, because he doesn\u2019t want \u201ca crazy person to be able to cancel something like this.\u201d Trump said he hopes \u201cwe\u2019re going to do it again\u2026we should do it within 30 days, and they’ll have even more security, and they’ll have bigger perimeter security. It’ll be fine.\u201d He then added: \u201cIt\u2019s not that I want to go, I\u2019m very busy, I don\u2019t need that. I think it\u2019s very important that they do it again.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Topline President Donald Trump criticized CBS News host Norah O\u2019Donnell, calling her a \u201cdisgrace\u201d, after she read out a portion of the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner shooter\u2019s alleged manifesto, where he mentions allegations of sexual misconduct without naming anyone directly. President Donald Trump snapped at CBS anchor Norah O\u2019Donnell when she read out the White […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}