President
Donald Trump speaks with the press aboard Air Force One, where he
called Bloomberg reporter Catherine Lucey a "piggy" for asking him about
the Epstein files.
President Donald Trump has spent years belittling women reporters, but his latest outburst stands out even by his standards.
Calling a Bloomberg correspondent a “piggy” while aboard Air Force One, the insultbarely registered at first.
By Tuesday, it was everywhere, drawing sharp pushback from journalists
who’ve clashed with Trump before and others who recognized the familiar
dynamic.
CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins is no stranger to President Donald Trump’s demeaning comments toward women reporters.
White House correspondent Catherine Lucey had used a rare moment with the president to press him on the escalating Epstein scandal and the House vote to release the files on
Tuesday. But when she asked why he was acting like he had something to
hide, “if there’s nothing incriminating in the files,” Trump cut her
off.
“Quiet. Quiet, piggy,” he said, pointing at her.
CBS correspondent Jennifer Jacobs first reported on Trump’s outburst, though she didn’t name Lucey at the time.
The blowback came quickly.
“Disgusting and completely unacceptable,” CNN anchor Jake Tapperwrote on X.
Gretchen Carlson, the former Fox News anchorwho has her own rocky history with Trump, called the remark “disgusting and degrading.”
Trump’shostility toward the press is hardly new, but his defensiveness around the Epstein files has been building for weeks.
After months of calling the files
a “hoax” and trying to delay or block their disclosure, he now faces
bipartisan pressure to make them public. And while Trump long opposed
the release, he abruptly changed course Sunday when it became clear that the resolution would pass in the House.
Former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson called President Donald Trump’s comment to Catherine Lucey “disgusting and degrading.”
Notably, this wasn’t the first time that he used this specific
insult. Alicia Machado, who was crowned Miss Universe in 1996, has long
said that Trump called her “Miss Piggy” and ordered her to lose weight when he owned the pageant.
In 2018, Lynne Patton, then a Trump administration official, aimed the same slur at veteran reporter April Ryan. Patton apologized, but Trump never did. That same year, Trump called Ryan a “loser” who “doesn’t know what the hell she is doing.”
Even on Tuesday—while the “piggy” remark was still spreading—Trump snapped at another woman reporter after she asked why he was waiting on Congress to release the Epstein files instead of just doing it himself.
“It’s not the question that I mind. It’s your attitude,” Trump
told her. “I think you are a terrible reporter. It’s the way you ask
these questions. You start off with a man who’s highly respected, asking
him a horrible, insubordinate question.”
“You’re a terrible person and a terrible reporter,” he added.
This pattern didn’t start recently. At a joint appearance with
Argentine President Javier Milei last month, a woman journalist asked
about China’s growing influence in Latin America. Trump turned to Vice President JD Vance and said, “I just like to watch her talk.” The two laughed.
“Good job. Good job. Thank you, darling,” Trump told the reporter.
He also unloaded on CNN’s Kaitlan Collins after she asked about his decision to pardon
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao. In a clip she later posted, Trump said
that she knows “nothing about nothing” and is “fake news.”
A cartoon by Jack Ohman.
Even when he’s not outright insulting women, he often veers into condescension about their looks or intelligence. During a July briefing, he fixated on African reporter Hariana Verás.
“That’s so beautifully stated,” he said before pivoting to how “beautiful” he found her.
“I’m not allowed to say that. You know that could be the end of
my political career, but you are beautiful—and you’re beautiful
inside,” Trump said. “I wish I had more reporters like you.”
The problem with these dynamics has been raised before. In 2018, the International Women’s Media Foundation urged the White House to curb Trump’s treatment of women journalists, especially women of color.
“While name-calling may seem harmless, coming from the head of
our government, it often sets in motion a torrent of abuse towards the
journalist,” Executive Director Elisa Lees Muñoz told The Guardian.
If the Epstein saga continues to dominate the news cycle, Trump
may lash out even more. But this isn’t a departure from who he is; it’s
the continuation of a well-worn script—one he reaches for when he feels
the walls closing in.
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Molly and Mehdi Hasan from Zeteo delve into the unraveling state of the MAGA movement, examining internal fractures driven by figures like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie, dissent over issues such as Gaza, inflation, and the ongoing Epstein files controversy. They critique Trump's self-sabotaging behavior, political influence on the Justice Department, and his role in fostering division within the Republican Party. The conversation explores the role conspiracy theories play in navigating a political climate saturated with dishonesty and obstruction, while also highlighting the deeply rooted connections among political elites, media figures, and Jeffrey Epstein. The hosts question the media’s complicity and institutional decay suggested by Epstein’s enduring influence, exposing harsh truths about power, access, and accountability in American politics today.
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