With just days remaining before the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump headlined a deeply offensive campaign event at Madison Square Garden in New York City, described by The New York Times as a “closing carnival of grievances, misogyny and racism.”
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.
To the extent that reality has any bearing on the coverage, there’s no evidence the reporter in question was acting inappropriately, but even if there were, it couldn’t excuse Trump calling her “piggy.”
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.
There were so many examples that Filipkowski soon after released a sequel.
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.”
