Well at least he didn’t grab her, even as he didn’t think about her reporting, simply doing that male gaze and not really acting like a creep atop a construction site …
Trump occupies the highest office in the most powerful nation on Earth. As such, there is an automatic and immense imbalance of power between him and nearly anyone else with whom he interacts — which is exacerbated when that person is a woman.
What might seem like a mild exhortation when he says “come here, come here” — from the literal seat of world power — is anything but.
During a phone call to congratulate the new prime minister of Ireland, Leo Varadkar, for which several Irish reporters were present, Trump said, “We have so many people from Ireland in this country … I feel I know all of ’em.”
He commented that there were a lot of Irish reporters in the room, then pointed at the camera and asked, “And where are you from? Go ahead, come here, come here. We have all of this beautiful Irish press.”
The reporter holding the camera, Caitriona Perry of RTÉ News, went to Trump’s side and introduced herself, after which Trump praised her “nice smile.”
He then told Varadkar, “I bet she treats you well.”…
"Usually we would shoot from outside the window of the White House and that's what we were expecting today but instead we were invited inside to witness the President's call to the Taoiseach. When we went in he was already on the phone but I managed to catch his eye and he called me over."
www.rte.ie/…