'Moron': White House attacks yet another female reporter as she calls deal 'humiliation'

A pro-Trump commentator triggered a White House attack after she called President Donald Trump's preliminary deal with Iran a humiliation for the United States.

Batya Ungar-Sargon, a self-described "MAGA lefty" who hosts a weekend show on NewsNation, broke with the administration over the memorandum of understanding Trump signed with Iran.

Ungar-Sargon is an Orthodox Jewish commentator and vocal Trump supporter who has repeatedly championed his presidency. But the Iran deal crossed a line she said she could not defend — particularly after Vice President JD Vance began blaming Israel for the region's instability.

"This is an utter humiliation of the United States, and everybody knows it," Ungar-Sargon told NewsNation's Elizabeth Vargas. "Everybody knows it, but especially Iran knows it. They are celebrating this."

She went further with Vance.

"JD Vance is out there criticizing Israel, making up fantasies about how it is Israel's fault," she said. "It is the complete Tucker Carlsonification of the Vice President of the United States, and it is utterly deplorable."

The White House's official rapid-response account fired back with a vicious personal attack.

"The only humiliation here is Batya desperately begging for an additional brain cell because her failing TV show is even more irrelevant than the likes of Kaitlan Collins and Fake Tapper," wrote Rapid Response 47 on X. "Only a moron of her caliber could still doubt President Trump's leadership."

The attack made no mention of the Iran deal or Vance's comments on Israel.

The reply also invoked CNN's Kaitlan Collins as a benchmark for irrelevance — notable given that Trump himself has repeatedly attacked Collins, calling her "the worst reporter" after she questioned him about the Epstein scandal.

The White House's response fits a broader pattern. Trump and his administration have repeatedly targeted women journalists with personal attacks — on their intelligence, their appearance, and their careers — rather than engaging with their reporting.

In May, Trump called one woman reporter "a dumb person" and told another she was "a stupid person" during a single South Lawn exchange. He previously called Bloomberg's Catherine Lucey "piggy" on Air Force One after she asked about the Epstein files.

"VP JD Vance just brought the US to its knees with a humiliating deal weeks before our 250th birthday," Ungar-Sargon wrote on X, "and he has the audacity to blame … Israel!"