CNN’s Kaitlan Collins told Jon Stewart that she’s listened to “pretty much all” of Trump’s speeches for a decade—but his bombing during Friday’s White House Correspondents Dinner was different than others.

The host, who was honored with the Award for Excellence in Presidential News Coverage Under Deadline Pressure at the Dinner for her coverage of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s 2025 visit to the Oval Office, appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Monday, where she revealed that she found the silence during his attempted quips the “most surprising.”

“The room was filled with a lot of his staffers, his cabinet, his allies, Republicans in Congress,” she said, and yet, “It was so quiet in the room during the president’s remarks.”

Several outlets reported that Trump’s hour-long speech at the Waldorf Astoria was met with “stunned silence” rather than laughs, as is the goal at the annual event.

A panel on CNN’s State of the Union, which included a Republican congressman and a former Trump administration aide, all agreed that the speech had bombed—and hard.

Stewart also ripped the performance on his Daily Show, telling viewers, “He has lived so long in a magical world of his own creation, curated for his comfort and positive reinforcement. He’s the ultimate snowflake, rewarded with unearned participation trophy laughs.”

Among Trump’s jokes during his remarks, he repeatedly insulted Collins and her award, rambling to the crowd, “I want to personally congratulate CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on receiving her award. It was all about me. It was a fake, she shouldn’t get the award, it was a fake. But I didn’t mind. I said, ‘Kaitlan, congratulations.’ But it was fake, there’s no question about it.”

He then attempted to roast the reporter for her appearance by comparing her to transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney, who became a MAGA target after her partnership with Bud Light in 2023.

“I thought Kaitlan had really made it big with a major new sponsorship,” Trump said. “But then I informed her that it wasn’t her on the Bud Light can, it was Dylan Mulvaney.”

Collins told Stewart that she wasn’t at all surprised that Trump attacked her during his speech. “In the room, I think... I was not surprised when he insulted me,” she said. “That happens pretty regularly inside the Oval Office. This is just a bigger venue where it was happening.”