--- title: Kellyanne Conway: Anderson Cooper's Eye Roll Was Sexism description: Kellyanne Conway accused Anderson Cooper of sexism after he rolled his eyes at her during a heated interview canonical: https://time.com/4775611/kellyanne-conway-anderson-cooper-interview-sexism/ author: Julia Zorthian article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-11T15:43:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:05:36.124Z og:title: Kellyanne Conway on Anderson Cooper's Eye Roll: 'I Face Sexism a Lot of Times' og:description: She thinks the reaction would have been different if she wasn't the target og:url: https://time.com/4775611/kellyanne-conway-anderson-cooper-interview-sexism/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7497a48ca5a44cbd/6988cce7ab6d7718ca6ae100/kellyanne-conway-anderson-cooper-eye-roll-respond-fox-and-friends.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: kellyanne conway anderson cooper eye roll respond fox and friends og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kellyanne Conway on Anderson Cooper's Eye Roll: 'I Face Sexism a Lot of Times' twitter:description: She thinks the reaction would have been different if she wasn't the target twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7497a48ca5a44cbd/6988cce7ab6d7718ca6ae100/kellyanne-conway-anderson-cooper-eye-roll-respond-fox-and-friends.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Kellyanne Conway on Anderson Cooper's Eye Roll: 'I Face Sexism a Lot of Times'  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian May 11, 2017 3:43 PM UTC  White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway participates in an interview with CNN at the White House May 10, 2017 in Washington, DC. White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway participates in an interview with CNN at the White House May 10, 2017 in Washington, DC.Alex Wong—Getty Images  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian May 11, 2017 3:43 PM UTC [Kellyanne Conway ](http://time.com/4685807/kellyanne-conway-oval-office-presidents-history/)[accused](https://twitter.com/foxandfriends/status/862635559017037824) CNN’s [Anderson Cooper](http://time.com/3580912/anderson-cooper-ridiculist-prank-by-staff/) of sexism Thursday after he rolled his eyes at her during a heated exchange on his show earlier this week. [Conway](http://time.com/4688147/kellyanne-conway-couch-meme/) made the claims during an appearance Thursday morning on “Fox & Friends” when she was asked about the eye roll. “Hillary Clinton is in search of sexism as a lame excuse for why her disastrous candidacy and campaign lost six months ago,” Conway said on Fox. “I face sexism a lot of times when I show up for interviews like that.” > [](https://twitter.com/foxandfriends/status/862635559017037824) Cooper did not immediately respond publicly to Conway’s accusation. The eye roll happened when Cooper played a montage of video clips showing Donald Trump praising Comey on the campaign trail, which he then followed with a question about the President’s firing of the [FBI director](http://time.com/4773210/donald-trump-fires-fbi-director-james-comey/). Conway responded by bringing up that Trump won Michigan. The exchange has since gone [gone viral](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/05/10/anderson-cooper-eyerolled-his-way-to-an-iconic-gif-while-interviewing-kellyanne-conway/), with many taking to Twitter to support Cooper’s reaction. > [](https://twitter.com/mattwilstein/status/862108167802462208) But Conway said she thought people would have reacted differently if she wasn’t the target. “Could you imagine…having a male anchor on the network roll eyes at Hillary Clinton, at somebody, a female representative spokeswoman for President Obama or President Bill Clinton? I think not,” Conway said during her appearance on “Fox and Friends.” Watch Cooper’s full interview with Conway below (the eye roll occurs just after the 10-minute mark). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4775611/kellyanne-conway-anderson-cooper-interview-sexism/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4775611/kellyanne-conway-anderson-cooper-interview-sexism/"},"headline":"Kellyanne Conway on Anderson Cooper's Eye Roll: 'I Face Sexism a Lot of Times'","datePublished":"2017-05-11T15:43:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:05:36.124Z","description":"She thinks the reaction would have been different if she wasn't the target","url":"https://time.com/4775611/kellyanne-conway-anderson-cooper-interview-sexism/","keywords":["motto","2016 Election topic","Television","viral","White House","Donald Trump","anderson cooper","kellyanne conway","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7497a48ca5a44cbd/6988cce7ab6d7718ca6ae100/kellyanne-conway-anderson-cooper-eye-roll-respond-fox-and-friends.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Julia Zorthian","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7497a48ca5a44cbd/6988cce7ab6d7718ca6ae100/kellyanne-conway-anderson-cooper-eye-roll-respond-fox-and-friends.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"kellyanne conway anderson cooper eye roll respond fox and friends","caption":"kellyanne conway anderson cooper eye roll respond fox and friends","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":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4775611/kellyanne-conway-anderson-cooper-interview-sexism/","name":"Kellyanne Conway on Anderson Cooper's Eye Roll: 'I Face Sexism a Lot of Times'"}}]}] ```