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White House defends Trump telling a female reporter “Quiet, piggy”

Old_JoeOld_Joe
edited 8:33PM in Off-Topic
Following are edited excerpts from a current report in The Guardian:

‘Unforgivable’: Trump’s ‘piggy’ insult is stoking more outrage than usual
It’s one outrage in days full of outrageous material.

“Quiet, piggy,” Donald Trump told a female reporter in a press gaggle, pointing his finger at her angrily. (She had asked him a question regarding the ongoing "Epstein" drama.)

It wasn’t the first time – not even the hundredth time – the US president has attacked the media. Nothing seems to stick. But the “quiet, piggy” clip has taken off, several days after the admonishment occurred on Air Force One last Friday, and without much help from the media itself.

Lashing out at a female reporter with a derogatory insult amid a news cycle dominated by politicians splitting hairs over a man who ran a sex-trafficking outfit – it was pretty on the nose.

But the clip also pinged around the internet in the same news cycle as Trump telling another female reporter it was rude to ask Saudi Arabian crown prince Mohammed bin Salman about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist whom the CIA determined was killed at the direction of the crown prince.

The combined force of two outbursts at female journalists in a single news cycle – for asking about a child sexual abuser and a murdered colleague – went beyond the standard-fare Trumpian attacks on the media.

Trump is going through a string of losses: Democrats dominating in off-year elections, having to reverse course on the Epstein files, Republicans refusing to get rid of the filibuster to end the shutdown, a faltering economy. There’s a possibility that he’s losing his air of impenetrability, and his grip on the right could maybe, just maybe, be loosening.

Comments

  • Sven
    Clearly the man is a misogynist who lacks respect and decency toward women. In addition, this is not the first time he offended and violated women, namely Jean Carrol. Can’t understand the women who support him.
  • CrashCrash
    Is he dead yet?
  • hank
    Oh, how I long for a JFK or John McCain.
  • MarkMark
    Or a Jimmy Carter.
  • CrashCrash
    I'm No Repugnant Party member. But I'd even prefer Colin Powell, rest his soul. He was invited to run, but declined. A TRUE patriot. Surely he felt out of step with the base by the time he retired. He was fed a load of garbage to use, to defend the 2nd Iraq war. My favorite quote from him: "I had to shake hands with a lot of pigs along the way."

    (Quiet, Piggy.)
  • Old_JoeOld_Joe
    Oh yes, I'd have voted for Colin Powell in a heartbeat. Dick Cheney and associates set him up to unknowingly sell his soul at the UN.
  • Old_JoeOld_Joe
    Following are excerpts from a current report in The Guardian:

    Karoline Leavitt says president ‘calls out fake news when he sees it’ after remark to reporter draws severe condemnation
    The White House issued a full-throated defense of Donald Trump’s reference to a Bloomberg News correspondent as a “piggy” on Thursday, claiming without evidence that the president “calls out fake news when he sees it and gets frustrated with reporters who spread false information”.

    Leavitt did not specify what “fake news” or “false information” Trump was responding to when he called Catherine Lucey, Bloomberg’s White House correspondent, “piggy”.
  • CrashCrash
    A national humiliation. The rest of the world is asking when this crap is going to END.
  • JD_co
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