Trump lays into another female reporter and asks ‘are you a stupid person?’

Donald Trump has sparked renewed controversy over his treatment of female reporters by repeatedly calling one ‘stupid’ at a press conference.

The 79-year-old lashed out when asked to explain previous comments saying his predecessor Joe Biden was responsible for the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, DC on Wednesday.

The suspected killer, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, is an Afghan national who worked in a special CIA-backed military unit in Afghanistan before moving to the US in 2021 when American forces pulled out of the country.

Trump repeatedly claimed there was ‘no vetting’ for Afghans who came to the US at the time, saying: ‘They came in unvetted, and we have a lot of others in this country we’re gonna get them out, but they go cuckoo.’

This contradicts a statement from his own Department of Justice earlier this year saying there was ‘thorough vetting’ of all Afghan evacuees by the FBI and Department of Homeland Security.

On Thursday, it emerged Lakanwal applied for asylum in 2024 and it was granted by the Trump administration in April this year.

The reporter raised the Department of Justice’s statement, asking the president: ‘So why do you blame the Biden administration?’

Trump replied: ‘Because they let them in. Are you stupid? Are you a stupid person?

‘Because they came into on a plane along with thousands of other people that shouldn’t be here, and you’re just asking questions because you’re a stupid person.’

An official White House X account posted a partial video of the exchange with three ‘fire’ emojis.

The part of the reporter’s question raising the DoJ statement which contradicted Trump was cut from the clip.

White House spokeswoman Abigail later defended the comment.

‘President Trump has never been politically correct, never holds back, and in large part, the American people re-elected him for his transparency’ she said in a statement.

‘This has nothing to do with gender – it has everything to do with the fact that the President’s and the public’s trust in the media is at all time lows.’

Later in the conference, Trump was asked to comment on the reports that the suspect was granted asylum under his administration.

He replied: ‘When it comes to asylum, when they’re flown in it’s very hard to get them out, no matter how you want to do it’s very hard to get them out, but we’re going to be getting them all out.’

Trump previously drew criticism for calling another female reporter ‘piggy’ earlier this month.

He lashed out at Bloomberg’s Catherine Lucy after she asked him about the Epstein files, saying ‘quiet, quiet, piggy’ while waving his finger at her.

Earlier this week he responded to an article by The New York Times’ White House correspondent Katie Rogers, in which she reported he has significantly reduced his workload due to age and fatigue, by calling her ‘ugly, both inside and out’ in a social media post.

Wednesday’s attack saw shots fired at a group of National Guard members near a metro station.

Of the two soldiers hit, one, 20-year-old Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, has since died of her wounds.

Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24, remains in hospital where he is ‘fighting for his life’.

Quickly after Sarah’s death, Trump posted a flurry of incoherent messages on his Truth Social account containing a vow to ‘permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover’.

He also said his administration would ‘end all federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens’ and remove ‘anyone who is not a net asset to the United States’.

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