In an epic exchange with CNN’s Kaitlin Collins, President Trump and El Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele humiliated the “low-rated” White House correspondent.
Trump slammed her after she repeatedly asked the same question despite receiving multiple answers. “How long do we have to answer this question from you? Why don’t you just say ‘Isn’t it wonderful that we’re keeping criminals out of our country?’ Why can’t you say that? Why do you go over and over? And that’s why nobody watches you anymore. You know, you have no credibility.”
Later in the press conference, Trump shut her down, saying “Not you,” when she tried to ask another question.
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.@POTUS shuts down a very rude @kaitlancollins of Fake News CNN (again) pic.twitter.com/6kfMPNEeVf
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 14, 2025
President Trump has frequently sparred with Collins in the White House and called her out for her disrespectful behavior and biased questions.
On Monday, while meeting with President Bukele, Trump sicced Attorney General Pam Bondi, White House Deputy Chief of Staff, and Marco Rubio on her to answer her biased questions about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a deported Maryland man and MS-13 gang member involved in human trafficking.
The US Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the US to facilitate the return of alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose deportation was previously blocked by a judge over his safety concerns. However, as The Gateway Pundit reported, Trump’s DOJ argued that “federal courts have no authority to direct the Executive Branch to conduct foreign relations in a particular way, or engage with a foreign sovereign in a given manner,” and that they cannot forcibly take the individual back or force El Salvador to return him.
“If they wanted to return him, we would facilitate it, meaning provide a plane,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said during the press conference Monday.
“Taking ‘all available steps to facilitate’ the return of Abrego Garcia is thus best read as taking all available steps to remove any domestic obstacles that would otherwise impede the alien’s ability to return here. Indeed, no other reading of ‘facilitate’ is tenable—or constitutional—here,” the DOJ wrote in response to Garcia’s attorney’s motion for additional relief.
President Trump on Monday picked Collins to ask her question, saying, “Let’s hear the question from this very low-rated anchor at CNN.”
He then deferred the question to his cabinet officials and Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and let them tear her to shreds.
When she later asked Bukele if he plans to return the gang member and designated terrorist to the United States, he responded with fire, telling her, “Of course, you’re not suggesting that I smuggle a terrorist into the United States, right? How can I smuggle– how can I return him to the United States? Of course, I’m not going to do it. The question is preposterous. How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? I don’t have the power to return him to the United States?”
Bukele told another reporter asking whether he will release the man from prison, “I’m not releasing– we’re not very fond of releasing terrorists into our country. We just turned the murder capital of the world to the safest country in the western hemisphere, and you want us to go back to releasing criminals so we can go back to being the murder capital of the world?”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio also responded, pointing out that the individual was correctly deported to his country of origin and “the foreign policy of the United States is conducted by the President of the United States, not the court, and no court in the United States has the right to conduct the foreign policy of the United States.”
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Collins: Do you plan to ask President Bukele to help return the man who your administration says was mistakenly deported to El Salvador?
Bondi: First and foremost, He was illegally in our country; he had been illegally in our country, and in 2019, two courts, an immigration court and an appellate immigration court, ruled that he was a member of MS-13 and he was illegally in our country. Right now, it was additional paperwork needed to be done. That’s up to El Salvador if they want to return him. That’s not up to us. The Supreme Court ruled, Mr. President, that if El Salvador wants to return him– this is international matters, foreign affairs. If they wanted to return him, we would facilitate it, meaning provide a plane.
Miller: As Pam mentioned, it was an illegal alien from El Salvador. So, with respect to you, he is a citizen of El Salvador.
So, it’s very arrogant even for American media to suggest that we would even tell El Salvador how to handle their own citizens as a starting point.
Two immigration judges found that he was a member of MS-13 when President Trump declared MS-13 to be a foreign terrorist organization. That meant that he was no longer eligible for any form of immigration relief in the United States. So, he had a deportation order that was valid, which meant that under our law, he’s not even allowed to be in the United States and had to be returned because of the foreign terrorist designation.
This issue was then, by a district court judge, completely inverted, and a district court judge tried to tell the administration that they had to kidnap a citizen of El Salvador and fly him back here.
That issue was raised to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court said the district court order was unlawful, and it’s main components were reversed 9-0 unanimously, stating clearly that neither Secretary of State nor the President could be compelled by anybody to forcibly retrieve a citizen of El Salvador from El Salvador, who again is a member of MS-13, which as I’m sure you understand rapes little girls, murders women, murders children, is engaged in the most barbaric activities in the world, and I can promise you if he was your neighbor, you would move right away.
It was 9-0 in our favor against the district court ruling, saying that no district court has the power to compel the foreign policy function of the United States. As Pam said, the ruling solely stated that if this individual at El Salvador’s sole discretion was sent back to our country, we could deport him a second time. No version of this, legally, ends up with him living here because he is a citizen of El Salvador.
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