Donald Trump: "she never smiles. I said, 'Kaitlan, do you ever smile? Smile. You have a nice…"

At the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington, D.C., on Friday, President Donald Trump delivered an hour-long speech in which he criticized several journalists and media figures. After CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins received a WHCA broadcast award for covering Trump’s February 2025 Oval Office confrontation with Ukraine’s president, Trump claimed the award was undeserved and “fake.” He then told Collins, who was in the audience, that she never smiles and urged her to smile, while also referring to CNN as “fake news.” CNN’s CEO publicly defended the network’s journalists and their reporting. The dinner marked Trump’s first appearance at the event, which he said he had previously skipped due to unfair treatment by the press.