Kaitlan Collins is returning to Washington, D.C., to be CNN’s chief White House correspondent for President-elect Donald Trump‘s second term.
CNN CEO and Chairman Mark Thompson announced Collins’ expanded role on Tuesday during the network’s morning editorial call. He noted that she will continue to anchor her primetime show, The Source with Kaitlan Collins.
“Kaitlan Collins is the perfect person to lead coverage of the new Trump White House,” Thompson said in a statement. “Kaitlan is a political journalist of real depth and tenacity who already boasts an amazing record of scoops and exclusive interviews.”
Collins is returning to the beat that made her a rising star at CNN. During the first Trump administration, she was famously barred from a 2018 Rose Garden event after asking questions that officials deemed “inappropriate.”
Collins again tangled with Trump during a CNN-hosted town hall in 2023, during which she repeatedly pressed him on his guilty verdict in E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit and his false claims about the legitimacy of the 2020 election. The Republican presidential candidate eventually lashed out and called her a “nasty person.”
“I think if you’re interviewing an elected official who is paid by the taxpayers, they shouldn’t like all of your questions. Or, they should at least get them off their talking points and make them uncomfortable,” Collins recently told TVNewser. “I always seek to be fair and respectful, but what’s the point of interviewing someone if you’re not going to go there and ask them what everyone’s thinking?”
Collins’ previous White House coverage led to her anchoring The Source last year, bringing stability to what had been a troublesome time period for the network. The show has also brought Republican and conservative personalities onto CNN’s airwaves. Her return to the White House beat signifies her importance to the network as Trump prepares to re-enter the Oval Office.
Source: politics.einnews.com…
Leave a Reply