Trump Insults Another Female Reporter After NYT Posts “Fatigue” Article: “Ugly, Both Inside & Out,” Self-Declared Protector Of Women Says
Donald Trump incredulously promised on the campaign trail last year to be the “protector” of American women, “whether the women like it or not.” With his third direct insult in the past two weeks of a female journalist, at least some women and others may have cause to be skeptical of the 79-year-old’s pledge.
“The Creeps at the Failing New York Times are at it again,” posted POTUS this AM after the Gray Lady published a feature piece on Trump’s near octogenarian status, clear signs of “fatigue” in his second term and how he is no longer “the Energizer Bunny of presidential politics.”
Outraged by even the suggestion he’s lost some of the bounce in his MAGA step, the hefty ex-Apprentice host once again made it very personal.
“This cheap ‘RAG’ is truly an ‘ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE,’ Trump said of the NYT, using his standard authoritarian tactic again the media. “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,” he went on to say of the Times’ White House correspondent in the Truth Social post, one of many this morning so far.
Probably didn’t do the NYT any favors with the thin-skinned Trump that a judge in September tossed out POTUS’ latest ($15 billion) lawsuit against the paper as “improper and impermissible.”
As they have on numerous occasions over the year, the broadsheet offered a measured responded to Trump’s attack.
“The Times’s reporting is accurate and built on first hand reporting of the facts,” the paper said in a statement Wednesday. “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.”
Katie Rogers is now added to Trump’s sh*tlist of sorts, along with Seth Meyers, former FBI director James Comey, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Jimmy Kimmel, Sen. Mark Kelly, ABC News correspondent Mary Bruce, and many more. Last week, during a November 14 scrum on Air Force One, Trump lashed out at Bloomberg‘s Catherine Lucey as she tried to ask a follow up question about the Jeffrey Epstein files. “Quiet, piggy,” Trump barked at Lucey.
Four days later, Trump took a swipe at ABC News’ Bruce when she dared asked visiting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman about the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and then asked POTUS about those still unreleased Epstein files. In front of MBS and others in a camera packed Oval Office, Trump called Bruce “horrible,” insubordinate.” Attacking her “terrible question,” Trump doubled down. “You’re all psyched up. Somebody psyched you over at ABC and they’re going to psych it. You’re a terrible person and a terrible reporter.”
Later, Trump floated the idea/threat that ABC should lose its broadcast license over the exchange.
As in the blowback to both the Lucey and Bruce attacks, as comparisons were made to Trump’s 2015 remarks about then Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly and “blood coming out of her wherever,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt sought to reframe the “Piggy” insult as just Trump being Trump. “Look, the president is very frank and honest with everyone in this room,” loyal Leavitt said in a November 20 briefing. And he calls out fake news when he sees it. He gets frustrated with reporters when you lie about him, when you spread fake news about him and his administration.”
Trump is down at his Florida Mar-A-Lago estate right now for the Thanksgiving holiday — which means, when he’s not playing golf, he has time on his hands and a phone to post from. Which means, expect more of this type of high-brown, high-class missives from the President of the United States this week.
