Former ABC Reporter Terry Moran Says Trump is ‘An Alpha Male In Every Room’ He Enters — ‘Until Vladimir Putin is There’

Fired former ABC reporter Terry Moran elicited both agreement and disagreement from fired former MSNBC host Tiffany Cross Thursday when he said that President Donald Trump is “an alpha male” every time he walks into a room — unless Russian President Vladimir Putin happens to be in there.

On the latest NewsNight from CNN, host Abby Phillip spoke with her panelists about Trump’s meeting with Putin in Alaska taking place this week, asking who has the upper hand and what people can expect to come of the meeting when it comes to Ukraine.

Author and columnist Batya Ungar-Sargon said to Phillip during the discussion that the meeting between Trump and Putin on Friday is the Russian president’s “last chance to prove to Trump that he is a logical actor and wants to bring an end” to the war.

Phillip replied that Putin has been “very clear” that the Ukraine invasion was about his view of “Russian Empire,” and Moran, who was fired from ABC after comments about Trump advisor Stephen Miller, agreed with that before adding his take on Trump’s relative male dominance around the Russian leader.

“There’s something about Trump and Putin, from the beginning,” Moran said. “I was in Helsinki as well. Trump is an alpha male in every room he walks into until Vladimir Putin is there.”

“I was there. You could feel it in the room,” he continued. “Now I’m not saying that Putin has anything on him, but I think — There’s no question that he has trouble with this guy.”

Ungar-Sargon jumped in to say, “This sounds like RussiaGate hoax to me,” causing some crosstalk, with Phillip and Moran saying it’s more an “interpersonal thing” between the two leaders.

Cross then weighed in to say that there’s “something nefarious” between Trump and the Russians, and added that while some may call Trump an alpha male, “He’s not an alpha-male to me.”

“He’s an insecure, very insecure little … person,” she said.

PHILLIP: I’m curious what you think, because I definitely think if you were paying attention in those months right after Putin sent those tanks into Ukraine, he was very clear that this is about his view of Russia, Russian Empire. That is not a made-up thing. He has said it himself.

MORAN: He’s been telling us this for almost 20 years. He thought the collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest catastrophe of the 20th century. Set aside the Holocaust, it was the collapse of the Soviet Union, one of the worst tyrannies in the history of humankind.

And there’s something about Trump and Putin, from the beginning — I was in Helsinki as well. Trump is an alpha male in every room he walks into until Vladimir Putin is there.

I was there. You could feel it in the room. Now I’m not saying that Putin has anything on him, but I think — There’s no question that he has trouble with this guy, and Putin having a rational…

UNGAR-SARGON: This sounds like RussiaGate hoax to me. I don’t know.

PHILLIP: I don’t think it has anything to do with Russia. It’s more of an interpersonal thing between the two of them and you can’t explain it.

MORAN: It’s an interpersonal thing.

CROSS: And I’m sorry, I’m old enough to remember when Kislyak was in the Oval Office. I mean, that’s not speculation, that is something that happened. So there is something nefarious, and even I have to respectfully disagree. I think you can call him an alpha male, depending on your definition of what an alpha male is. He’s not an alpha-male to me.

MORAN: He performs.

CROSS: He’s an insecure, very insecure little … person.

Watch the clip above via Fox News.