--- title: Trump Calls Journalist Who Asked Him Question 'Beautiful' description: The Washington Post staffer called it another example of the candidate's sexism canonical: https://time.com/4267116/trump-calls-journalist-beautiful/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-22T01:01:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:46:19.891Z article:section: Politics og:title: Trump Calls Journalist 'Beautiful' After She Asked Him a Policy Question og:description: The Washington Post staffer called it another example of the candidate's sexism og:url: https://time.com/4267116/trump-calls-journalist-beautiful/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9cbac926de5037d7/69888bec0b72e32aef6e89fe/donald-j-trump.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Presidential Candidates Address AIPAC Policy Conference og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trump Calls Journalist 'Beautiful' After She Asked Him a Policy Question twitter:description: The Washington Post staffer called it another example of the candidate's sexism twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9cbac926de5037d7/69888bec0b72e32aef6e89fe/donald-j-trump.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Trump Calls Journalist 'Beautiful' After She Asked Him a Policy Question > Sponsored content. 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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) March 21, 2016 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong—Getty Images by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Mar 22, 2016 1:01 AM UTC Donald Trump once again drew ire for his treatment of a female journalist on Monday, calling a Washington _Post_ staffer “[beautiful](https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/03/21/i-asked-trump-a-policy-question-then-he-called-me-beautiful/)” after she asked him a question about policy. Trump was meeting with the _Post_‘s editorial board in an opportunity for the paper to grill him on his positions. Karen Attiah, an editor, wrote that she asked the Republican frontrunner about his plans for racial inclusion, to which he responded that he was actually “doing very well” with African Americans and Hispanics. Attiah contested that statement, which prompted Trump to differentiate between the support of “people that are legally living here” and “illegals.” Attiah followed up by asking if he felt his rhetoric was divisive, which he refuted. “As the meeting ended,” Attiah writes, “and we were walking out of the room, I thanked Trump for taking my question. He turned to me and said, ‘I really hope I answered your question,’ and added casually with a smile, ‘Beautiful.'” Attiah was stunned: --- > “” --- Read more at the [Washington _Post_](https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/03/21/i-asked-trump-a-policy-question-then-he-called-me-beautiful/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4267116/trump-calls-journalist-beautiful/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4267116/trump-calls-journalist-beautiful/"},"headline":"Trump Calls Journalist 'Beautiful' After She Asked Him a Policy Question","datePublished":"2016-03-22T01:01:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:46:19.891Z","description":"The Washington Post staffer called it another example of the candidate's sexism","url":"https://time.com/4267116/trump-calls-journalist-beautiful/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9cbac926de5037d7/69888bec0b72e32aef6e89fe/donald-j-trump.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9cbac926de5037d7/69888bec0b72e32aef6e89fe/donald-j-trump.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Presidential Candidates Address AIPAC Policy Conference","caption":"Presidential Candidates Address AIPAC Policy Conference","creditText":"Alex Wong—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4267116/trump-calls-journalist-beautiful/","name":"Trump Calls Journalist 'Beautiful' After She Asked Him a Policy Question"}}]}] ```