US President Donald Trump directed a personal insult at a female journalist outside the White House on Tuesday afternoon, calling her a 'dumb person' when challenged over taxpayer-funded renovations to his presidential ballroom. The exchange, caught on camera as reporters pressed him on spiralling costs, has reignited scrutiny of his treatment of women in the press.
The confrontation, which occurred shortly before the 79-year-old departed Washington for Beijing, marks the latest in a documented pattern of the president aiming personal attacks at women in the media who question his administration's spending and economic policies.
