CNN reporter balks at Trump's vulgar attack on cabinet member: 'My mother is watching'
One of President Donald Trump's attacks on his own cabinet secretary was so vulgar that a CNN reporter wouldn't read it aloud.
CNN special correspondent Jamie Gangel was reading an excerpt from Regime Change, an upcoming book about the second Trump administration by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan. She had to stop, however, when getting to a part about what Trump said to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.
Trump told Lutnick, "You used to be a killer," according to a passage from the book that Gangel read on-air. "I remember when you were 35, you were a killer."...
Jun 18, 2026


