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riversedge

(78,931 posts)
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 01:31 PM Tuesday

This is Jennifer Jacobs, the reporter Trump barked "quiet, quiet, piggy" at for asking...........

I wonder if Trump would have name-called a male reporter piggy??
Thump needs to look at his own chunky self in the mirrow.....!!



Brian Allen
@allenanalysis
This is Jennifer Jacobs, the reporter Trump barked “quiet, quiet, piggy” at for asking about the Epstein files.

Stop normalizing a president abusing reporters, especially women, because he’s terrified of a question.


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This is Jennifer Jacobs, the reporter Trump barked "quiet, quiet, piggy" at for asking........... (Original Post) riversedge Tuesday OP
The real Piggy needs to SFU. Irish_Dem Tuesday #1
Wrong person. Wiz Imp Tuesday #2
Yes Lifeafter70 Tuesday #29
'Who is Catherine Lucey? Bloomberg reporter Trump called 'piggy' for asking about Epstein files' sop Tuesday #33
All reporters should wear pig noses to pressers. Traildogbob Tuesday #3
I would pay good money to see that! 3catwoman3 Tuesday #4
Our best weapon Traildogbob Tuesday #5
I wish the press would have had the balls to ignore him from the moment he rode down... 3catwoman3 Tuesday #28
Not a seconds break Traildogbob Tuesday #31
We don't have Trump Derangement Syndrome. We have Trump Exhaustion Syndrome. 3catwoman3 Tuesday #35
I will admit to TES Traildogbob Tuesday #38
the gnewz media loves them rump ratings. they are fame rating whores. they pimped oompa for ratings. pansypoo53219 Wednesday #57
So you just want wall to wall snorting? quakerboy Tuesday #11
Better than listening Traildogbob Tuesday #13
... and/or inflatable pig costumes (worked in Portland with frogs!) fierywoman Tuesday #14
Roger Waters Traildogbob Tuesday #17
PERFECT!! bluestarone Tuesday #15
Or just hold up a mirror toward him when he starts spewing shit. chowder66 Tuesday #21
!!! 👍 electric_blue68 Tuesday #23
The snorting will never end IronLionZion Tuesday #37
Jr has snorting skills. Traildogbob Tuesday #39
Real piggies are adorable creatures Wednesdays Tuesday #41
That would be funny. pandr32 Tuesday #48
She could very easily told him fuck off you fucking pedophile. Autumn Tuesday #6
Well, if he thinks he can shoot someone on Fifth Avenue in NYC and get away with it, why not on Air Farts One? generalbetrayus Tuesday #10
I mean.. yes quakerboy Tuesday #12
I think that may be possible. I wouldn't put it past him. chicoescuela Tuesday #16
I Keep Wishing RobinA Tuesday #30
He would fart! BidenRocks Tuesday #54
Throw it back....... KentuckyWoman Wednesday #58
He would love to take a Saudi approach IronLionZion Tuesday #40
hims head been screwed on wrong and could start a fire struggle4progress Tuesday #7
He's mocked a disabled reporter and calls everyone names EdmondDantes_ Tuesday #8
That's right. ShazzieB Tuesday #43
oh my god. That was disgusting. choie Tuesday #9
THIS! EuterpeThelo Tuesday #18
That is just horrible. choie Tuesday #50
Thanks, choie. EuterpeThelo Wednesday #55
It doesn't matter what she looks like. WhiskeyGrinder Tuesday #19
Every day he gets worse orangecrush Tuesday #20
Since he was getting all middle-school with his insults, she should have said, Sogo Tuesday #22
"I know you are, but what am I?" tanyev Tuesday #47
Trump is the pig. Martin68 Tuesday #24
The proper reply was: liberalgunwilltravel Tuesday #25
He seems to like the idea of suing those he feels have slighted him, taxi Tuesday #26
He is a degenerate scum of a human being...makes me sick that he is president... wcmagumba Tuesday #27
I totally agree with everything you wrote except.... lastlib Tuesday #36
I so don't like the pointy finger. Zackzzzz Tuesday #32
faking us out Schmice3 Tuesday #34
His time is limited. I see impeachment in his future. Joinfortmill Tuesday #42
That was tried twice before, can never get enough votes, especially in the Senate...dang it... wcmagumba Tuesday #44
Maybe. Maybe not. Joinfortmill Tuesday #45
DJT has no respect for women whatsoever. MIButterfly Tuesday #46
The White House responds: red dog 1 Tuesday #49
If Trump doesn't call a reporter piggy, they're not doing their job. dem4decades Tuesday #51
Again, it's called PROJECTION. Justice matters. Tuesday #52
Disgusting, embarrassing, ignorant self enriching ass hole selling us out to Saudi Arabia vapor2 Tuesday #53
Not that it matters in any way, Halicarnassus Wednesday #56
Trump deserves zero respect. He is a piece of shit. hadEnuf Wednesday #59
White House Tries to Defend Trump's 'Piggy' Insult LetMyPeopleVote Wednesday #60
Multiple posters have said it wasn't Jennifer Jacobs. MichMan Wednesday #61

Wiz Imp

(8,326 posts)
2. Wrong person.
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 01:37 PM
Tuesday

It was Catherine Lucey, a Bloomberg reporter

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/11/18/trump-female-reporter-piggy-epstein-questions/

Donald Trump told a female reporter to be “quiet, piggy” after she asked about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein on board Air Force One.

The US president was travelling to Mar-a-Lago in Florida on Friday when Catherine Lucey, a Bloomberg reporter, asked why he did not want to release the remaining Epstein files.

Ms Lucey said: “If there’s nothing incriminating in the files, sir, why not act?”

Mr Trump singled her out, pointed in her face and told her: “Quiet, quiet piggy.”


Jacobs pointed out it was the Bloomberg reporter. It was not her.
https://nypost.com/2025/11/17/media/trump-blasts-reporter-who-interrupted-him-you-are-the-worst/
In a tweet, CBS News’ White House reporter Jennifer Jacobs noted another recent faceoff that took place aboard Air Force One.

She wrote that Trump on Friday told a Bloomberg reporter, “Quiet, quiet, piggy” after the journalist asked “why, if there’s nothing incriminating in the files, he’s acting like there is,” in Jacobs’ words.


Lifeafter70

(738 posts)
29. Yes
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 03:41 PM
Tuesday

It was a reporter from abc the he called fake news for her question to the Saudi prince today

Traildogbob

(12,226 posts)
3. All reporters should wear pig noses to pressers.
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 01:38 PM
Tuesday

With a trump hair piece. Snort at every lie he tells.

Traildogbob

(12,226 posts)
5. Our best weapon
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 02:01 PM
Tuesday

Is laughing in his face. He will burst a Clogged vein and be gone. I definitely would pay to see that.
They keep saying access, access. Well, he NEEDS media just as much. With no coverage of his lies, he will be done.
Personally I would love to see left leaning media to stop airing his crap. MS NOW should have had live fact checking today, or just cut him off.
Who needs ACCESS to him, he plasters his BS everywhere.

3catwoman3

(28,247 posts)
28. I wish the press would have had the balls to ignore him from the moment he rode down...
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 03:41 PM
Tuesday

...that damn escalator in 2015. He's been in the news every goddamned day since.

3catwoman3

(28,247 posts)
35. We don't have Trump Derangement Syndrome. We have Trump Exhaustion Syndrome.
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 03:55 PM
Tuesday

Or may TSF - Trump Fatigue Syndrome. That would allow for some nifty acronym symmetry - TSF (The Sick Fuck) has given us TFS.

pansypoo53219

(22,758 posts)
57. the gnewz media loves them rump ratings. they are fame rating whores. they pimped oompa for ratings.
Wed Nov 19, 2025, 03:19 AM
Wednesday

OOOOOH, WHAT DID HE TWIT TODAY. ever fawning over their goden SQUIRREL. FEEEEEED US!!!!!

Traildogbob

(12,226 posts)
13. Better than listening
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 02:37 PM
Tuesday

To his sick ass voice lying every damn word and insulting women, when he looks like him
I just want him pissed off enough to blow a gasket, and then we can Make America Great Again.
Tire of be raging mad, I just wanna laugh at his expense.

Traildogbob

(12,226 posts)
17. Roger Waters
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 02:46 PM
Tuesday

Would loan us the Floyd one.
Maybe he could loan it to NYC for the Thanksgiving parade and put a hair piece on it. With a MAGA hat.
Mamdoni would love it.

pandr32

(13,654 posts)
48. That would be funny.
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 06:44 PM
Tuesday

However, because of how abusive he is to the press (women included for sure) they should boycott him and not show up at all. No reporters. Na-da.
Let his press pool be not there.
No point anyway. He doesn't answer questions properly. He abuses reporters who do their jobs. F*ck him.

Autumn

(48,687 posts)
6. She could very easily told him fuck off you fucking pedophile.
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 02:01 PM
Tuesday

What's he gonna do? Toss her out of the plane or have her shot? In front of everyone?

generalbetrayus

(1,415 posts)
10. Well, if he thinks he can shoot someone on Fifth Avenue in NYC and get away with it, why not on Air Farts One?
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 02:28 PM
Tuesday

quakerboy

(14,674 posts)
12. I mean.. yes
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 02:33 PM
Tuesday

Or if has more sense, he just asks his friend the Saudi prince to disappear her.

Or ya know, just have ice do it. Thats coming. If its not already happening, it will soon.

RobinA

(10,454 posts)
30. I Keep Wishing
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 03:45 PM
Tuesday

someone would grab his finger when he starts that pointing thing he does.

KentuckyWoman

(7,358 posts)
58. Throw it back.......
Wed Nov 19, 2025, 04:12 AM
Wednesday

No point going to federal jail because he's a garbage head. Throw it back!

Call him out .... Mr President, no one is impressed. Grow up.
Or go dramatic ... OMG, that finger smells like a diaper! (and pinch your nose to keep out the stink)
Or just go for the carotid. Look him square in the eye and ask .. "Do you use that finger when you rape little girls?"

I mean yeah, you'll never be allowed near him again, but you won't be in a jail for touching a POTUS. And if you are going to do it, don't grab the finger - Instead say "215 pounds?" and poke the belly like he's the pillsbury dough boy and do the giggle.

IronLionZion

(50,440 posts)
40. He would love to take a Saudi approach
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 04:00 PM
Tuesday

if they would let him. It's possible he has given such orders before and was ignored.

EdmondDantes_

(1,190 posts)
8. He's mocked a disabled reporter and calls everyone names
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 02:10 PM
Tuesday

Would he have called a male reporter "piggy"? Given the history, no as he mostly refers to women by appearance. But some other name? Absolutely.

ShazzieB

(22,001 posts)
43. That's right.
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 04:54 PM
Tuesday

He'll insult anybody, but he goes after women for their appearance more than anything else, especially those who don't meet his personal standards for female attractiveness. I think it says a lot about how he sees women. To him, women exist to be decorative and to cater to the needs and desires of men, period. Any woman who asks him a question he doesn't like is falling down on the catering to his needs part, and very few women who haven't had a ton of plastic surgery are able to measure up in the personal attractiveness area. A woman who asks him a question he doesn't like or challenges him in any way AND doesn't look the way he thinks women should look will quickly find herself in the doghouse with him (pun intended). I suspect projection plays a major role as well. Underneath all the bluster, he is extremely insecure, and a fat man calling a woman "piggy" screams insecurity to me.

The only physical trait I can recall him mocking non-disabled men for is being short (as he defines that). Michael Wolff has said that he has a thing about being the tallest guy in the room and that one of the things he hates about Comey is his towering 6'8' height. Trump likes to use his size to intimidate people, and he can't do that with a man who towers over him, lol. With men who are shorter than him, he can lord it over them and call them names like "Little Marco."

The closest thing I can recall to him insulting a man for his weight is saying JB Pritzker needed to "hit the gym" (more obvious projection and hilarious coming from a guy who probably hasn't set foot in a gym since his high school p.e. classes).

If he has ever mocked any aspect of a man's appearance other than height or weight, I must have missed it and would like to be filled in!

choie

(6,451 posts)
9. oh my god. That was disgusting.
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 02:13 PM
Tuesday

And there wasn't any member of the media who had the guts to say anything on her behalf? Damn it, they are her colleagues! And by the way, showing a photo of the reporter as if to say "she's not fat, why did he say that?" implies that it would have been okay had she been overweight.

EuterpeThelo

(138 posts)
18. THIS!
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 02:49 PM
Tuesday

Thank you for pointing that out. Weight is the last bastion of "acceptable" discrimination in this country. Those of us who have struggled know that first hand.

I was once denied a promotion in favor of two men who had no work experience AT ALL, just a BA in a totally unrelated field, and D- reviews in the three months and six months, respectively, they each had in the (very low-level) position we shared. This was despite my having two years in the current role with A++ reviews, 15 years of work experience prior to that job, and a degree with a 4.0 GPA in the exact field for which the spot was open.

My boss was livid and demanded answers from the higher-ups. In response, one of those managers sent her a newspaper article about why fat people don't get promoted and suggested she share it with me "because it might help her."

(Living well is the best revenge though - both dudes flunked out of the spot almost immediately, I ended up getting the promotion after a partner intervened, and have now been doing this work for nearly 30 years...the manager had to resign from her last firm amid a cloud of scandal. Karma is my kink!)

choie

(6,451 posts)
50. That is just horrible.
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 07:03 PM
Tuesday

I'm sorry that happened to you. I've struggled with my weight my whole life, and it has affected my self esteem terribly.

EuterpeThelo

(138 posts)
55. Thanks, choie.
Wed Nov 19, 2025, 02:02 AM
Wednesday

My current firm is really enlightened and when I tell this story to the baby attorneys I'm training (especially when we have office roundtables about things like unconscious bias), they literally can't even believe it happened to me. All they've ever known me as is their knowledgeable, experienced mentor - that they would never have had if this awful manager had gotten her way back in the late 90s. Millennials and Gen Z just seem to take it for granted that women and POC and LGBTQ+ will be treated with respect in the workplace and it's one of the things I love about their generations.

Hear ya on the struggle. It's something that, if it gets talked about at all in public discourse, often gets mocked or dismissed as if it's a choice ("Just do some pushups and eat less" they crow). As if we haven't tried everything (though I refuse to do the GLP-1s - no thanks to going blind or never enjoying food again). Sending you hugs in solidarity!

Sogo

(6,869 posts)
22. Since he was getting all middle-school with his insults, she should have said,
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 03:10 PM
Tuesday

"It takes one to know one, sir."

tanyev

(48,375 posts)
47. "I know you are, but what am I?"
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 05:34 PM
Tuesday

Repeated over and over again to any mish-mash of words that manages to escape from his mouth.

liberalgunwilltravel

(1,008 posts)
25. The proper reply was:
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 03:30 PM
Tuesday

Mr. President, go fuck yourself, because certainly no self-respecting woman ever would.

taxi

(2,651 posts)
26. He seems to like the idea of suing those he feels have slighted him,
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 03:39 PM
Tuesday

perhaps Bloomberg and she could file one of those billion dollar lawsuits.

wcmagumba

(5,279 posts)
27. He is a degenerate scum of a human being...makes me sick that he is president...
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 03:39 PM
Tuesday

I hope his death is slow and painful however it happens...

lastlib

(27,218 posts)
36. I totally agree with everything you wrote except....
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 03:55 PM
Tuesday

"of a human being." He has no humanity in him, and should not be included in the human population. I regard him as sub-human. You should have stopped at "degenerate scum."

Everything else was perfect.

wcmagumba

(5,279 posts)
44. That was tried twice before, can never get enough votes, especially in the Senate...dang it...
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 05:03 PM
Tuesday

MIButterfly

(1,711 posts)
46. DJT has no respect for women whatsoever.
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 05:19 PM
Tuesday

The only value a woman has to him is if she's good-looking or f___able. If she's not, he can't even feign the slightest bit of common courtesy or interest in what she has to say.

What a broken, horrible, miserable excuse for a man that lump of nothing is. His parents really damaged him beyond repair. It's too bad they never had to atone for it.

red dog 1

(32,186 posts)
49. The White House responds:
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 06:46 PM
Tuesday

The White House responds: "This reporter behaved in an inappropriate and unprofessional way towards her colleagues on the plane. If you're going to give it, you have to be able to take."

Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) 2025-11-18T18:16:26.883Z

(The Bloomberg reporter was Catherine Lacey)

dem4decades

(13,438 posts)
51. If Trump doesn't call a reporter piggy, they're not doing their job.
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 07:50 PM
Tuesday

I would guess at CBS, any reporter Trump calls piggy would be fired.

Justice matters.

(9,144 posts)
52. Again, it's called PROJECTION.
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 08:28 PM
Tuesday

It's unconsciously revealing what PIGGY pedo the felon hates about HIMSELF.

vapor2

(3,492 posts)
53. Disgusting, embarrassing, ignorant self enriching ass hole selling us out to Saudi Arabia
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 08:42 PM
Tuesday

I do relish that he is losing support but hope we can all recover from his destruction

Halicarnassus

(25 posts)
56. Not that it matters in any way,
Wed Nov 19, 2025, 02:15 AM
Wednesday

…what that Putrid Clown said, and not knowing anything about who she is except that pic, but she’s very lovely. Her face wasn’t constructed in a lab like the First Lady’s!

LetMyPeopleVote

(173,120 posts)
60. White House Tries to Defend Trump's 'Piggy' Insult
Wed Nov 19, 2025, 11:47 AM
Wednesday

The White House is standing by an insult President Donald Trump hurled at a female reporter.

White House Tries to Defend Trump’s ‘Piggy’ Insult

www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-...

Roger Cook (@rogerc91.bsky.social) 2025-11-19T01:45:25.837Z

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-defends-donald-trumps-piggy-comment/

The White House is not retreating from the intense backlash to President Donald Trump’s disparaging insult of a female reporter.

Trump, 79, drew outrage when he snapped at Bloomberg White House correspondent Catherine Lucey for asking him a question about the notorious Jeffrey Epstein files on Friday.

“If there’s nothing incriminating in the files, sir, why not—” Lucey began to say as the president took questions aboard Air Force One.

Before she could finish, however, Trump pointed his finger at her and barked, “Quiet! Quiet, piggy.”

The remark was roundly blasted as “disgusting” in a torrent of criticism, including from CNN anchor Jake Tapper and former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson, but the White House seems unfazed.

“This reporter behaved in an inappropriate and unprofessional way toward her colleagues on the plane. If you’re going to give it, you have to be able to take,” a White House official told the Daily Beast.......

The testy exchanges are par for the course for Trump, who has a long history of hurling demeaning insults at women.

In 2017, The New York Times columnist Gail Collins recalled that Trump had sent her copies of her columns that he disliked, calling her a “dog and a liar” with “the face of a pig.”

In 2016, Latina beauty queen Alicia Machado, who won the Miss Universe title at age 19 when Trump co-owned the organization, recounted how he would call her “Miss Piggy” and “Miss Housekeeping.”
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