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Maria Shriver criticized President Donald Trump for targeting female journalists with insults during interviews and public appearances

Trump recently called Meet the Press host Kristen Welker "crooked" and insulted CNN's Kaitlan Collins during a press exchange

Shriver urged others to denounce Trump's behavior, calling it "unacceptable and undignified" and likening it to childish outbursts

Maria Shriver is speaking out against President Donald Trump 's verbal attacks on female journalists.

The journalist and activist, 70, took to X on Monday, June 8, to share her thoughts on Trump's recent public outbursts against women of the White House press corps. His most recent run-in aired on Sunday, June 7, in which he stormed out of a Meet the Press interview after calling host Kristen Welker , 49, "crooked": "You're either crooked or you're stupid," he said.

Shriver didn't hold back when sharing her thoughts on the incident. The niece of the late President John F. Kennedy wrote that she had been "thinking a lot" about it.

"It feels like he saves his most childlike behavior and irrational language for female reporters, calling them all kinds of names that kids in kindergarten are given times out for," she said. "I've never witnessed someone like this raging."


In response to Shriver's comments, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson told PEOPLE that Trump has "never been politically correct."

"In large part, the American people re-elected him for his transparency," Jackson said in a statement. "This has nothing to do with gender — it has everything to do with the fact that the President's and the public's trust in the media is at all time lows."

Trump also came under fire last week for his tirade against CNN White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins , who pressed Trump about his controversial $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization fund," prompting the president to launch an attack on both CNN and Collins herself .

"A corrupt reporter standing right there, never smiles," he said, referring to 34-year-old Collins. "You never see a young, beautiful woman who never smiles. I never see a smile on her face. I see her standing there with hatred in her eyes."

President Donald Trump and Kaitlan Collins at a CNN town hall during the 2024 presidential primariesCredit: John Nowak/CNN
President Donald Trump and Kaitlan Collins at a CNN town hall during the 2024 presidential primaries
Credit: John Nowak/CNN
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Trump faced some of his strongest backlash in November 2025 after calling Bloomberg News White House correspondent Catherine Lucey "piggy," which Shriver also mentioned in her post.

"Every good man should denounce this behavior. Every person should be able to stand up for their colleagues and say 'No more,' " she wrote.

"Imagine this man screaming like this at your daughter, your wife, your sister, your mother," she continued. "Would you stand for it? No, you wouldn't! And neither should any of us. It's unacceptable and undignified. Period. End of story."

Shriver has been vocal about her distaste for Trump's actions, including his attempt to add his name to the Kennedy Center, which was dedicated by Congress as a living memorial to her late uncle. A federal judge ordered the removal of Trump's name from the landmark on May 29, on what would have been JFK's 109th birthday,

"An appropriate birthday present on my uncle's birthday today," Shriver, the daughter of JFK's younger sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver , wrote.

"I know they'll probably appeal and the story isn't over," she added, "but for today let's celebrate a great birthday gift."

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Every once in a while I think of someone in the past and how they would respond to my behavior or action. It is like spirit speaking thru from a different dimension that was once in this physical world responding and answering to my challenges with wisdom. And even more unusual - though it has happened - i feel that person -  peaked thru from the other side to help.

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It's knowing that your door is always open
And your path is free to walk
That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag
Rolled up and stashed behind your couch
And it's knowing I'm not shackled
By forgotten words and bonds
And the ink stains that are dried upon some line
That keeps you in the backroads
By the rivers of my memory
That keeps you ever gentle on my mind
It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy
Planted on their columns now that bind me
Or something that somebody said
Because they thought we fit together walking
It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing
Or forgiving when I walk along some railroad track and find
That you're moving on the backroads
By the rivers of my memory
And for hours you're just gentle on my mind
Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines
And the junkyards and the highways come between us
And some other woman's cryin' to her mother
'Cause she turned and I was gone
I still might run in silence tears of joy might stain my face
And the summer sun might burn me 'til I'm blind
But not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the backroads
By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind
I dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin'
Cracklin' caldron in some train yard
My beard a rustling, cold towel, and
A dirty hat pulled low across my face
Through cupped hands 'round the tin can
I pretend to hold you to my breast and find
That you're waiting from the backroads
By the rivers of my memories
Ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind

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