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CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins fired back at President Donald Trump this week by turning his favorite insult into on-air desk decor.

A mug emblazoned with the words "America Needs Nasty Women" sat in clear view on Collins' desk during multiple broadcasts of her CNN show "The Source," The Daily Beast reported Saturday.

The message is a pointed callback to an insult Trump has hurled at Collins for years. During a 2023 CNN town hall in the Republican primary, Collins pressed Trump on the classified documents the FBI said he had kept at Mar-a-Lago and refused to hand back, a standoff that ended in a search of the property. Trump shot back, "You are a nasty person."...

President Donald Trump's own words are being used against him as CNN and MS NOW boost their lawsuit against his White House media ban.

On Tuesday, several developments came in regarding CNN and MS NOW's lawsuit against Trump, even as the White House had yet to file its response before a deadline set for the end of the day.

Among the developments was CNN and MS NOW's lawyers adding to the court record Trump's attack against CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins at the United Nations earlier in the day....

A retired Air Force secretary's description of how Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has impacted the military shocked Kaitlan Collins.

During a Wednesday interview, Collins interviewed Frank Kendall about the military under Hegseth. Kendall said that Hegseth's "witch hunt for people who are supposedly woke" and attack on dissent have frightened the ranks and diminished morale to the point where the military is struggling to operate.

"In a word, it's dysfunctional," Kendall said, answering a question from Collins about his assessment of what's happening in the military and Pentagon right now. "I've worked with and had a chance to work for maybe a dozen secretaries of defense. He's doing active harm to the Department of Defense. It's not passive. It's active harm."...

Former Republican insider Steve Schmidt argued on Wednesday that President Donald Trump's biggest fear is someone who tries to hold him accountable — like CNN's Kaitlan Collins.

In his podcast and video series "The Warning," the co-founder of the anti-Trump organization, The Lincoln Project, compared Trump's "Trojan horse" move in Turkey, where he left journalists and his own aides as "bait on the chum plane" under a credible threat, to former President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II. He juxtaposed this with the moment FDR learned that a torpedo was fired at the USS Iowa, where he rushed to the rail to see it coming towards the ship.

"When he was aboard a presidential aircraft flying with Dwight Eisenhower sitting next to him shortly after giving him command of the D-Day operation with the hydraulics out on the airplane, FDR lit a cigarette, threw his head back and laughed at all of it," Schmidt said, citing a book from Rick Atkinson that describes the incident....

CNN's Kaitlan Collins could get the last word against President Donald Trump on Monday night.

Collins will be the guest on Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" after Trump's bizarre attack on the correspondent during the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Friday, The Daily Beast reported.

The reporter has been a long target of criticism by the president and was expected to respond to the president's obsession with her during her appearance on Stewart's show. Stewart has been a vocal opponent of Trump and has often spoken out about him....

CNN's Kaitlan Collins pressed President Donald Trump about the war in Iran when he decided to suddenly end a White House press conference on Monday.

Trump was speaking at the Oval Office to a group of reporters when he cut the questions short and lashed out against the network. The president had told reporters that the United States had plans to ramp up attacks on Iran, as Trump had ordered a new blockade against Iran in the Strait of Hormuz.

"The US is bombing Iran again. You've been bombing Iran for months now. Is this just the new normal for the American people?" Collins asked....