'Unforgivable': Trump's 'piggy' insult is stoking more outrage than usual

[Swede]

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.

It wasn’t the first time – not even the hundredth time – the US president has attacked the media. And it’s hard for any storyline to break through the administration’s “flood the zone” strategy, much less one like this. 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.

“I don’t know why the ‘Piggy’ thing is bothering me so much,” wrote Hank Green, a YouTuber and author. “It’s one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I’ve been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/19/trump-quiet-piggy

[UpInArms]

1. His insults are just more disgusting all the time

I was sick of him in 2011 and every day I grow more weary of his continued existence

[VTderry]

31. And yet, he is CONSTANTLY whining about reporters asking him

"nasty" questions.

I wish the next reporter he hurls this at would come back with "But Sir (😏 , your whole brand is built on being nasty. You give out all kinds of degrading nicknames and regularly call us "terrible." My question wasn't INTENDED to insult you, unlike your nicknames and disparaging comments. I accept that you did feel slighted, despite my intention. But surely you aren't saying you can dish it out but you can't take it??"

[agingdem]

35. His personal attacks are becoming more profane and degrading

because he has no filter, an obvious symptom of his rapid mental decline...

as my late mother-in-law's dementia progressed, I watched her threaten, insult, curse, spew racial epithets, accuse, and shove...and yet she could "pass" a simple cognitive assessment exam..but she couldn't draw a clock..she slurred her words, "reached" for words, and spoke in repetition..sound familiar?

[PatSeg]

37. I think more and more,

Trump is saying what he is really thinking out loud. As outrageous as he's been in the past, I think he had somewhat of a filter most of the time, but now more crap is leaking out of his mouth.

[hlthe2b]

2. It sticks because it makes one want to smack the shitty smirk off his face...

and because we can not, it is like that thorn in your foot you can't remove or forget.. Every time I see his ugly face, the urge to smack him returns in force.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. It's a degrading insult that attempts to pull rank.

Unpresidential.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. "Piggy" is code for UNATTRACTIVE and UPPIDITY FEMALE REPORTER.

Michael Cohen spoke before Congress in 2019 that Donald Trump speaks in "Codes".

Perhaps now, WH correspondents are finally hitting back. It will become even more apparent when female reporters are BANNED from the WH and AF1.

[GusBob]

5. "millions of views " on online accounts "4 days after it happened"

I think I saw it same day, but I noticed it gaining traction subsequently. 'Cuz it is something that strikes a nerve

Are the press and media doing their job? The article indicates they did nothing to defend their colleague for fear of being attacked too, and I reckon something like this is everyday, not "breaking news" click bait material?

[MineralMan]

6. I think it's having more impact

because of Trump's own pig-like appearance. For him to call a woman "Piggy" is the height of irony.

He is a nasty, nasty man.

[bronxiteforever]

7. The POTUS is the fundamental phrases maker

of the Country. Adams, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelts, Kennedy, Reagan (talking about his speeches not the odious policies), Obama. The demeaning of the rhetoric has hurt the US much more than we can imagine.
The piggy insult reinforces all the previous foul utterances of TSF. It isn’t a “joke or just joking” to people. The mask has fallen. It is who he is.

[NCDem47]

8. He's thisclose to blurting:

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"boy," f-word (gay derogatory), n-word, or bitch.

He's thinking it. He wants to say it. he has no self-control. He's revealing himself.

[CincyDem]

26. He will say at least 2 of these on tape or a hot mike before he leaves office.

[Ocelot II]

9. I'm a bit surprised he hasn't used "c***" on a female reporter or some other uppity woman - yet.

Probably says it in private all the time, but his filters are falling off, so just wait.

[Irish_Dem]

10. He probably has used this language in front of the press.

But it has been covered up.

[iscooterliberally]

12. Apparently he did that last year.

https://abovethelaw.com/2024/02/trump-calls-roberta-kaplan-a-see-you-next-tuesday-like-the-12-year-old-boy-he-is/

[Kid Berwyn]

15. He has. "See you next Thursday."

The sex offender used that euphemism for the c-word to her face.

Never heard this phrase before this story…



Roberta Kaplan says Trump threw papers across table at Mar-a-Lago deposition because his legal team agreed to feed her lunch

Kaanita Iyer and Jamie Gangel, CNN
Thu, February 1, 2024

Attorney Roberta Kaplan said former President Donald Trump threw papers across a table and stormed off during a deposition at Mar-a-Lago after learning that his legal team had agreed to provide her lunch.

Snip…

“We come in the room and I say, ‘I’m done asking questions’ and immediately I hear from the other side, ‘Off the record. Off the record. Off the record.’ So they must have planned it. And he looks at me from across the table and he says, ‘See you next Tuesday,’” she recounted.

Kaplan said that she was initially confused, as their next meeting was set for a Wednesday. “You could tell it was like, it was like a kind of a joke again, like teenage boys would come up with. But again, I wasn’t in on the joke,” she said.

“I wasn’t in on the joke, so I had no idea. Then we get into the car and my colleagues are like, ‘Robbie, do you know what that means?’ And I’m like, ‘No, what are you talking about?’ They tell me and I’m like, oh my God, thank God I didn’t know because had I known, I for sure would have gotten angry. There’s no question I would have gotten angry,” Kaplan said.

Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/roberta-kaplan-says-trump-threw-044213512.html

corporate McPravda: Always Protect the Trump Brand.

[NotHardly]

21. He hates women, unless he is allowed to molest them.

[Ocelot II]

23. Sexual assault isn't "liking." It's a display of dominance.

Men who assault women hate them and that's one way they show it.

[multigraincracker]

11. Been great if she had quickly replied

“Sorry President Pedo”.

[iscooterliberally]

13. Trump was projecting again.

If they took a group photo of everyone on that plane at the time he used this slur, guess which person would look the most like a pig, and has acted the most like a pig? I mean, I could be wrong, but if Vegas was taking odds on the bet my money would be on Trump.

[Aviation Pro]

14. The reason why I'm still raw about this

Is because not one male came to the defense of the reporter. Not a single, fucking one called out the fucking chomo.

The media is full of these fucking cowards.

[Ocelot II]

16. I live for the day when somebody asks him, "What the hell is *wrong* with you?"

But I disagree that a male should have come to the rescue of the damsel in distress; we women can defend ourselves. And it was actually better to just leave that one hanging.

[SSJVegeta]

25. Is it maybe a bit shocking that nobody has?

Most people who behave like him would have that said to them regularly. Strange he hasn't ever had that in any major public way.

[Delmette2.0]

36. Hind sight is great

I wish she had brushed her shoulder, like Hillary did, and asked the question again.

[wiggs]

17. Because evidence is piling up that these glimpses into his character are less about 'style' and more

about disorders. DU has known since the beginning, as have many others...but MSM and gop have pretended not to notice.

[Scrivener7]

28. This is it. The wall has a crack. Just a crack, but

it's something.

[azureblue]

18. and the GOP

will do nothing to remove him from power. Right now, they have come to realize the have hooked their wagon to a sinking ship (mixing metaphors) And they see that Trump is destroying their party. But they will do nothing, even in the face of the Epstein files and the latest Trump outrage.

Good riddance.

[Clouds Passing]

19. Quiet Quiet Dumpy the Pig

[Farmer-Rick]

20. He is mentally unstable

He will get worse.

Next up will be him using the actual swear words that he really wants to use. Or maybe something really funny like taking off his clothes inappropriately.

Also he will start having more blank periods like when he was in Japan or how he just stood there blank when that old white guy fell over during speeches. Total disconnect between his brain and what he's doing.

And the anger will get worse. When these types of personalities can't understand what's going on, they frequently get angrier and angrier.

[pandr32]

22. The mask completely came away--it didn't just slip for a sec.

He couldn't have exposed his true self more. We can never unsee the monster he paints and combs over. All of us know he not only detests the Press, hates women, but now how he must have have treated children he was sexually abusing--his monstrous true self.
He did it, he did it all, he has no bottom.

[Uncle Joe]

24. Kicked and recommended

Thanks for the thread Swede

[underpants]

27. Montage of 19 clips of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters over the past few months

Link to tweet

?s=46&t=3VBm1LJ8j8qLp6JTs_8J2A

[wiggs]

33. kick in hopes that MSM might see the way to provide context. please make an OP. nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

29. MaddowBlog-Trump's 'piggy' comment extends his lengthy record of routine misogyny

When it comes to mistreating women, the president is who he appears to be.

Trump’s ‘piggy’ comment extends his lengthy record of routine misogyny
When it comes to mistreating women, the president is who he appears to be.
Read in MS NOW: apple.news/AD0z5-YmbQke...
👉this is who he is and has always been, a pig

— (@enuffsaysv.bsky.social) 2025-11-20T02:18:32.830Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-piggy-comment-extends-lengthy-record-routine-misogyny-rcna244852

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......

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.

Montage of 19 clips of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters over the past few months. Part 1.

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-11-19T13:13:48.210Z

There were so many examples that Filipkowski soon after released a sequel.

Part 2

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-11-19T13:15:47.452Z

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.”

[orangecrush]

30. Because that is probably exactly the way

He talked to Epstein's victims.

[choie]

32. Adding to the outrage is

the lack of support that other reporters who were at the gaggle showed the target of the insult. No one reporter said a word to trump. It was disgusting.

[yardwork]

34. I think it's because it can't be explained away.

I think of the (mercifully few) MAGATs I know. They're always moving goalposts, looking for false equivalencies, insisting that Democrats are twisting the truth or not telling the whole story. They just really really need to believe in Trump.

This is impossible to explain away. I imagine "nice" Christian women who normally twist themselves into pretzels to explain away Trump's bad behavior mumbling "Well, he shouldn't have said that." They'll immediately follow up with some false equivalency but there isn't one.

Even they can't pretend that Obama or Biden ever said something like that to a reporter.

It's kind of devastating in its simplicity.

[Tumbulu]

38. Well, I am furious that nobody stood up for Yamiche

Alcindor when he attacked her during the first nightmare.

Why everyone is up in arms over this, when it has been going on nonstop since day one mystifies me. But, I will accept progress, no matter how slowly it comes.

[vapor2]

39. This vile traitor is mentally sick

but not one soul will stop him