US Edition'Quiet, Piggy' All the Female Journalists Trump Has Verbally Attacked
President Trump has repeatedly used disparaging and gendered language toward female journalists to belittle and discourage critical questioning, experts say.
- Aboard Air Force One on November 14, President Donald Trump told Bloomberg reporter Catherine Lucey `Quiet, Piggy` while responding to questions about the Epstein files, pointing at her during the flight from Washington, DC, to Mar-a-Lago.
- President Donald Trump has long disparaged female journalists, including calling Alicia Machado `Miss Piggy` and labeling ABC News's Mary Bruce a `terrible reporter` since returning to office.
- Experts say Elisa Lees Munoz sees Trump’s insults as revealing `misogynistic tendencies`, while Professor Ava Thompson Greenwell described them as `micro-assaults`, citing Megyn Kelly's `blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever`.
- White House officials defended President Trump's response, with an unnamed official calling Lucey `inappropriate and unprofessional` and Karoline Leavitt calling Margaret Brennan `stupid` during an Oval Office exchange where Trump also labeled Mary Bruce a `terrible reporter`.
- Probing questions in the Oval Office led to sharp exchanges about the Epstein files and Saudi business ties, leaving 9/11 families furious and raising concerns about press treatment.
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Starmer says he'd never call a reporter 'piggy' in rare criticism of Trump
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