Donald Trump Attacks CNN's Kristen Holmes for Asking if He Spoke to North Korean Dictator: 'You're a Loud, Boisterous Person. Be Quiet!'

President Donald Trump grew angry at CNN's Kristen Holmes during a press briefing at the White House Monday, after she asked whether he had spoken with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. "Quiet," Trump told Holmes, CNN's senior White House correspondent, after she queried the president about if Jong-un had asked Trump to curtail U.S. military exercises with South Korea. "You're a loud, boisterous person. You're faking news!" Holmes tried to follow up on her question to the president, saying, "I was trying to find out if you had been talking to Kim Jong-un, if he had asked you to scale back on those military exercises." Trump, talking over her, said: "Be quiet! Be quiet! Be quiet! You're a fake reporter and you report fake news." The press event Monday at the White House was organized to honor teenage lifeguard Ryder Williams, who rescued a 10-year-old boy at a beach in Santa Cruz, California, last month. After Holmes asked her initial question about Kim Jong-un, Trump said, "Quiet -- you're very disrespectful in front of this young man, OK?" and asked the teen, "Don't you find her disrespectful?" Meanwhile, the White House lashed out at Holmes because during the same event, she asked Trump for his response to a remark by Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff about one of Trump's aides. Earlier in the day at a campaign rally, Ossoff said that Trump "doesn't want to do the job. He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the Emir of Qatar," referring to Natalie Harp, the president's executive assistant. In response to Holmes' question about Ossoff, Trump said, "You mean Pee-wee Herman? Pee-wee Herman lookalike." Following the exchange in the Oval Office, the White House's Rapid Response 47 account on X wrote, ".@KristenhCNN is a disgraceful, humiliating embarrassment to her alleged profession. @POTUS hosts a hero lifeguard in the Oval Office and she uses it as an opportunity to take a cheap shot about one of President Trump's staffers. These scumbags are the lowest of the low." The White House comms team followed that up with this comment: ".@KristenhCNN: Someday, your children will come across your disgusting and inhumane question. They will be sickened and embarrassed to have a parent be so callous and vindictive. It's quite troubling." In a statement responding to the White House attacks, CNN said, "Kristen Holmes is one of the most respected and accomplished journalists covering the White House. This afternoon, she did her job and asked the President of the United States a tough, relevant, and newsworthy question on behalf of the American people. Public officials are free to challenge reporting they disagree with, but personal attacks on journalists for asking questions are beneath the office and inconsistent with the principles of a free press. We stand firmly behind Kristen and reject these attacks in the strongest possible terms."