Donald Trump takes savage dig at reporter's appearance just weeks after 'piggy' controversy
Topics: Donald Trump, US News, Politics, News, Social Media
Madison Burgess
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Topics: Donald Trump, US News, Politics, News, Social Media
Donald Trump has lashed out at yet another female reporter, this time calling them 'ugly inside and out'.
It comes just after a video went viral of the US President, 79 calling a female reporter 'piggy' earlier this month, prompting widespread backlash on social media.
The moment in question took place on Monday (17 November), while Trump was hosting a press interaction on Air Force One, during which he was questioned about the recent release of the Jeffrey Epstein files by the House Oversight Committee.
Bloomberg News reporter Jennifer Jacobs asked Trump if there's anything particularly 'incriminating' in the 20,000 documents relating to the criminal financier, and he responded by pointing a finger in her face and telling her: "Quiet. Quiet piggy." Yes, that really happened.
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Unsurprisingly, the Republican leader was slammed for the 'misogynistic' remark as the video made it's way around the internet, prompting people to dig out older clips of the President berating female reporters.
And as we say, he's now issued another insult, this time to Katie Rogers, the White House correspondent for The New York Times, after she co-authored a story about his health.
The piece, titled 'Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Ageing in Office,' accuses Trump of dozing off during an event in the Oval Office and having a shorter schedule, among other things.
Taking to Truth Social yesterday (26 November) the US President wrote an angry paragraph hitting back at the piece and taking aim at Rogers in particular.
He began by referencing his accomplishments, writing: "I won the 2024 Presidential Election in a Landslide, winning all Seven Swing States, the Popular Vote, and the Electoral College by a lot.
"I won our Nation’s Districts by 2750 to 550, a complete wipeout. I settled 8 Wars, have 48 New Stock Market Highs, our Economy is Great, and our Country is RESPECTED AGAIN all over the World, respected like never before. "The last Administration had the Highest Inflation in history - I have already brought that down to normal, and prices, including groceries, are coming down. To do this requires a lot of Work and Energy, and I have never worked so hard in my life. Yet despite all of this the Radical Left Lunatics in the soon to fold New York Times did a hit piece on me that I am perhaps losing my Energy, despite facts that show the exact opposite. They know this is wrong, as is almost every thing that they write about me, including election results, ALL PURPOSELY NEGATIVE."
Taking aim at the NYT, he went on to call it a 'cheap rag' that's an 'enemy of the people'. Ouch.
Trump then brutally penned: "The writer of the story, Katie Rogers, who is assigned to write only bad things about me, is a third rate reporter who is ugly, both inside and out.
"Despite all of this, I have my highest Poll Numbers, ever, and with record setting investment being made in America, they should only go up.
"There will be a day when I run low on Energy, it happens to everyone, but with a PERFECT PHYSICAL EXAM AND A COMPREHENSIVE COGNITIVE TEST (“That was aced”) JUST RECENTLY TAKEN, it certainly is not now! GOD BLESS AMERICA & MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!"
In response to Trump, the New York Times has said: "The Times's reporting is accurate and built on firsthand reporting of the facts. Name-calling and personal insults don't change that, nor will our journalists hesitate to cover this administration in the face of intimidation tactics like this.
"Expert and thorough reporters like Katie Rogers exemplify how an independent and free press helps the American people better understand their government and its leaders."
And a White House rep said in a statement to Tyla: "President Trump has never been politically correct, never holds back, and in large part, the American people re-elected him for his transparency. This has nothing to do with gender – it has everything to do with the fact that the President’s and the public’s trust in the media is at all time lows."