Telling a reporter ‘quiet, piggy’ was shocking – even for Trump Margaret Sullivan Guardian
Catherine Lucey, who covers the White House for Bloomberg News, was doing what reporters are supposed to do: asking germane questions.
Her query to Donald Trump a few days ago during a “gaggle” aboard Air Force One was reasonable as it had to do with the release of the Epstein files, certainly a subject of great public interest. Why had Trump been stonewalling, she asked, “if there’s nothing incriminating in the files”.
His response, though, was anything but reasonable.
It was demeaning, insulting and misogynistic.
He pointed straight at Lucey and told her to stop doing her job.
“Quiet. Quiet, piggy,” said the president of the United States.
From what I could tell, none of her colleagues in the press corps immediately rose to her defense. Things just moved on – business as usual, in a sense.
And yet, if I were making a timeline of Trump’s use of the press as a punching bag, this moment would deserve a place on it. -- nordy
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Telling a reporter ‘quiet, piggy’ was shocking – even for Trump
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Catherine Lucey, who covers the White House for Bloomberg News, was doing what reporters are supposed to do: asking germane questions.
Her query to Donald Trump a few days ago during a “gaggle” aboard Air Force One was reasonable as it had to do with the release of the Epstein files, certainly a subject of great public interest. Why had Trump been stonewalling, she asked, “if there’s nothing incriminating in the files”.
His response, though, was anything but reasonable.
It was demeaning, insulting and misogynistic.
He pointed straight at Lucey and told her to stop doing her job.
“Quiet. Quiet, piggy,” said the president of the United States.
From what I could tell, none of her colleagues in the press corps immediately rose to her defense. Things just moved on – business as usual, in a sense.
And yet, if I were making a timeline of Trump’s use of the press as a punching bag, this moment would deserve a place on it. -- nordy