White House Tries to Defend Trump's 'Piggy' Insult

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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

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— 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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1. These people have very little morals....................

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2. It Would Be a Huge Blow to My Ego to be Belittled Like This, One of the Reasons That is a Job I Could Never Have Endured

But props to her - and reporters in general (although in light of earlier news, the fact she is there suggests she was pre-approved by the self-ennobled crime boss!). And of course it is more of a (thousandth) confirmation of his childish insecurity, projecting his own self-doubt on others.

We see that waist-line, Tubbo-in-Chief!

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3. MaddowBlog-Trump's 'piggy' comment extends his lengthy record of routine misogyny

When it comes to mistreating women, the president is who he appears to be.

Link to tweet

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-piggy-comment-extends-lengthy-record-routine-misogyny-rcna244852

A year later, the carnival continues. My MS NOW colleague Clarissa-Jan Lim reported on what happened when a female reporter pressed the president on his Jeffrey Epstein ties. From the report:

During a press gaggle on Air Force One on Friday, the reporter asked the president about one of the emails Epstein wrote about him that Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released last week. When she tried to follow up with a question about potentially incriminating details in the Epstein files, Trump pointed and said, “Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.”

The White House made no effort to deny the accuracy of the quote, which was captured on video, telling MS NOW in a statement that the president’s target deserved the rebuke after engaging in “inappropriate and unprofessional” conduct......

Complicating matters, however, is the familiarity of the circumstances. Meidas News’ Ron Filipkowski put together a video montage that highlights examples of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters — just over the past few months.

Montage of 19 clips of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters over the past few months. Part 1.

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-11-19T13:13:48.210Z

There were so many examples that Filipkowski soon after released a sequel.

Part 2

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-11-19T13:15:47.452Z

Trump is, in other words, exactly who he appears to be. He’s the man in the E. Jean Carroll case. He’s the one on the “Access Hollywood” recording. He’s the Republican who suggested some of the women who’ve accused him of sexual misconduct weren’t attractive enough to attack. He’s the politician who vowed to “protect” women from the White House “whether the women like it or not.”

He’s also the one who didn’t hesitate to shut down a reporter asking a reasonable question by calling her “piggy.”