Vivek Ramaswamy's 'Mansplaining' To CNN's Kaitlan Collins Riles Up Critics

[Eugene]

Vivek Ramaswamy's 'Mansplaining' To CNN's Kaitlan Collins Riles Up Critics (HuffPost)

The GOP presidential candidate's "Kaitlain, Kaitlan, Kaitlan, Kaitlan, Kaitlan" reply to the female anchor got social media observers mad mad mad mad mad.

Vivek Ramaswamy was criticized Monday for “mansplaining” to CNN host Kaitlan Collins while repeating her name multiple times for effect.

“Kaitlan, Kaitlan, Kaitlan, Kaitlan, Kaitlan,” Ramaswamy admonished in what viewers described on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, as a “condescending” and “demeaning” tone.

The Republican presidential candidate had taken umbrage at Collins noting a previous comment of his about individually arming Taiwanese households against China.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vivek-ramaswamy-kaitlan-collins_n_64e47d86e4b07db68195d378

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[TSExile]

1. Someone from the Grand Old Patriarchy...

...was condescending and demeaning? To a woman???

NO!!!!

🙄

[question everything]

2. So he is a misogynist. Nothing new

[dalton99a]

3. People who like this ignorant obnoxious asshole are themselves ignorant obnoxious assholes

[calguy]

4. Another rich boy, running for President because he can

[Ocelot II]

5. He has many of the qualities favored by the GOP:

He's obnoxious, condescending and sexist; he's a know-it-all who doesn't know much about much; he's a rich asshole who thinks being rich makes him special. But the voters he wants won't vote for him because, although he's an asshole, which they like, he's also a brown Hindu. You have to be a white Christian asshole to completely win the mean, dumb, racist hearts of GOP voters.

[alterfurz]

9. as has been noted here on DU and elsewhere...

"He has nearly all the attributes that Republicans adore. Nearly but not qwhite."

[Marthe48]

10. lol

qwhite.

[Ocelot II]

11. LOL, yup!

[Chakaconcarne]

6. Condescending?...maybe, but kind of a lame point to be made by Collins in effort to make an issue

out of what he said.....and the reaction to it all a little overdramatic.

I've seen male hosts spoken to the same way....

He's an idiot, not defending him...don't agree with him.

That is my opinion.

[Buns_of_Fire]

7. Vivek Ramaswami sees himself as America's Brahmin.

And I don't mean that as a compliment.

[IzzaNuDay]

20. yeah, he thinks he can import his caste into American politics.

I’m hoping he becomes irrelevant quickly.

And also hoping the 18-25 year olds are instrumental in making him irrelevant!

[MagickMuffin]

8. Gee whiz if any of us runs for president CNN will gives us airtime?

Yeah, probably not, one has to be a billionaire to get CNN to give anyone airtime.


Hopefully this guy ends up spending a lot of his fortune on his egotistical run for the presidency.

[Takket]

12. "I'll pull Russia out of its military alliance with China"

I’d love to hear the details on how he plans on dictating to Russia and China what their military alliances are allowed to be. Imagine him walking into a summit and saying that. They would die laughing.

I’m far more outraged but his awful policies than him condescendingly repeating her name. Media should be focusing on that.

[LeftinOH]

13. Arrogance is all he has - and he has lots of it.

[MurrayDelph]

14. Yes, but it's he more patronizing or condescending?

There is a difference.

[themaguffin]

15. He's a grifter and he's also not ready for prime time. The more he's out the more he'll

demonstrate what an ass he is

[Sympthsical]

16. "social media observers mad"

The job market's red hot right now.

Is it possible for us to get these people one?

"People who sit around watching cable news and posting on Twitter all day didn't like someone's tone on teevee!"

Be still my outraged heart.

Thank god the rest of the country is doing so well. Otherwise we might not have time for this.

[yardwork]

17. He's very unpleasant. /nt

[LiberalFighter]

18. Typical dumbass Republican who thinks he is better than everyone else.

[Swede]

19. He's a libertarian schmuck.

Never heard of him before a month ago. Hopefully he winds up on the ash heap of history soon.