After Donald Trump snapped at another female reporter on Tuesday (May 12), CNN’s Erin Burnett wondered whether the president’s “testy” behavior stems from his apparent lack of sleep.
On Tuesday’s edition of Erin Burnett OutFront, the news anchor played a clip of Trump calling MS NOW’s White House correspondent, Akayla Gardner, a “dumb person” after she asked him about the rising costs of his White House ballroom.
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