President Donald Trump berated a female CNN reporter in the Oval Office on Monday, awkwardly trying to rope in a 10-year-old boy seated in front of him to make his case for cutting her off, then turning to the teenage lifeguard who rescued that child to support him in his media bashing.
Trump was hosting Ryder Williams, the 16-year-old lifeguard from Santa Cruz, California, who was filmed last month pulling Nathaniel Rai, 10, from heavy surf at Seabright State Beach. Sitting with them in the Oval Office was Nathaniel himself. The rescue went viral and prompted the president to invite Williams to the White House for what he called "a High Civilian Honor."