--- 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/4267496/trump-calls-journalist-beautiful-2/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-22T14:08:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:48:09.467Z 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/4267496/trump-calls-journalist-beautiful-2/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt441d53c4df33a56d/69888bfbcd1bba2d786ffedd/donald-trump-calls-reporter-beautiful-sexism.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Presidential Candidate Donald Trump Holds Election Night News 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/blt441d53c4df33a56d/69888bfbcd1bba2d786ffedd/donald-trump-calls-reporter-beautiful-sexism.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Trump Calls Journalist 'Beautiful' After She Asked Him a Policy Question (22 Mar 2016) > Sponsored content. 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Billionaire Trump fell short of his goal of winning the two key states he needed to clear most of the Republican presidential field, securing a huge victory in Florida to knock out Senator Marco Rubio while losing Ohio to Governor John Kasich. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images Donald Trump, president and chief executive of Trump Organization Inc. and 2016 Republican presidential candidate, smiles while speaking during a news conference at the Mar-A-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., on Tuesday, March 15, 2016\. Billionaire Trump fell short of his goal of winning the two key states he needed to clear most of the Republican presidential field, securing a huge victory in Florida to knock out Senator Marco Rubio while losing Ohio to Governor John Kasich. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images Andrew Harrer—Bloomberg/Getty Images by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Mar 22, 2016 2:08 PM 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/4267496/trump-calls-journalist-beautiful-2/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4267496/trump-calls-journalist-beautiful-2/"},"headline":"Trump Calls Journalist 'Beautiful' After She Asked Him a Policy Question (22 Mar 2016)","datePublished":"2016-03-22T14:08:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:48:09.467Z","description":"The Washington Post staffer called it another example of the candidate's sexism","url":"https://time.com/4267496/trump-calls-journalist-beautiful-2/","keywords":["motto","2016 Election","News"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt441d53c4df33a56d/69888bfbcd1bba2d786ffedd/donald-trump-calls-reporter-beautiful-sexism.jpg?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":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt441d53c4df33a56d/69888bfbcd1bba2d786ffedd/donald-trump-calls-reporter-beautiful-sexism.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Presidential Candidate Donald Trump Holds Election Night News Conference","caption":"Presidential Candidate Donald Trump Holds Election Night News Conference","creditText":"Andrew Harrer—Bloomberg/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":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4267496/trump-calls-journalist-beautiful-2/","name":"Trump Calls Journalist 'Beautiful' After She Asked Him a Policy Question (22 Mar 2016)"}}]}] ```