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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.

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[–] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 8 points 29 minutes ago

I really wish the reporter had the balls to either tell him to go fuck himself, or retorted "I know you are but what am I?" Just like children do, because that's what Trump is. An 80 year old child with a fragile, projecting ego

[–] bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world 6 points 21 minutes ago (1 children)

I grew up in the 70s and 80s when it was acceptable for parents to physically beat their children, and when when I saw this clip of Trump it shocked me because the look on his face, the finger pointing, and the sound of his voice was exactly how my father looked and sounded right before he would take off his belt to beat us with it. I can't be the only one who has these memories.

Also using the word "piggy" is revealing of how he sees people. Pigs are associated with slaughter and murder in nearly all of our stories. We kill and eat pigs. The upper classes see the rest of us as pigs to harvest and slaughter and consume. In their eyes how dare a lowly pig meant for their dinner plates question them and talk back to them. What Trump did and said revealed all this horror.

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 5 points 6 minutes ago

I agree. But also piggy usually is “fat, ugly” too when referencing a woman.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago

It's just his fat little goblin 3rd grader mentality bubbling to the surface.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 hour ago

Bold move when 3/4 of your base is overweight.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 36 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

trump said "Quiet, piggy" and angrily poked his tiny rapist finger at her. And that's when she flicked out the blade hidden in her pen and stabbed him in the fucking face.

She went on to be a two-and-a-half term president, noted mainly for decimating the oil industry and saving the earth.

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[–] lando55@lemmy.zip 2 points 20 minutes ago* (last edited 20 minutes ago)

Don't flick the blade

At the guy in shades

Of orange

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

About sums it up. Thank you for reading our minds.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 60 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

"quiet piggy" is unacceptable, but the country was totally chill with "grab her by the pussy," or mocking a disabled reporter.

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad America seems to be waking up, but c'mon. If this bothers you, but the previous incidents didn't, maybe you should be re-evaluating your opinions.

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 21 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The difference is all the MAGAts are starting to be inconvenienced by Trumps America. They have no problem violently deporting people, but god forbid something relatively minor by comparison affects their life.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

That's true, but I also think there is a stark difference between a low quality 'off the record' recording and standing at the official podium taking questions from vetted journalists to a live feed on every news network.

Anyone paying the slightest bit of attention has known he is, at best, an odious man-child for years. But a lot of people actively try to avoid paying attention because they've been trained that it's "just politics" instead of the infrastructure that impacts every aspect of their lives.

[–] Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 18 points 3 hours ago

The irony of a fat piece of shit who pisses himself calling someone else "piggy"

[–] gjoel@programming.dev 90 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

It always surprises me what people think is the final straw. He's making his own personal army, kidnapping people off the streets, he's taxing everyone, he's taking bribes like it's hamberders, he's lying about absolutely everything, he's demolishing the American government, he's raping people, always revolving around whether this involves children, which seems more and more likely... But him calling a reporter a bad name is surely what's going to fell him.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 5 points 1 hour ago

This camel has an adamantium spine.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 48 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

There's also the estimated 600,000 people killed by his withdrawal of aid so far, which is projected to rise to 22 million dead. He has killed more people than Idi Amin and is on his way to matching the most deadly dictators in history, killing almost as many as a world war. Add in the dead from his COVID policies in his first term and immigration policies in the second term and he's one of the deadliest leaders ever.

https://www.salon.com/2025/11/19/trumps-greatest-crime-is-practically-invisible/

[–] xyzzy@lemmy.today 25 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Most people haven't been kidnapped and kept in a cage. Everyone remembers how a personal insult has made them feel, or the shame of standing by and doing nothing when someone else was bullied near them.

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 4 hours ago

He bragged about "grabbing them by the pussy" and got elected. This scandal isn't even going to move the needle.

[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

A fine example of abuse of power. I would expect the woman to slap him, but she can't because of POTUS security.

[–] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 1 points 36 minutes ago (1 children)

I'd settle for a shouted, terse "Fuck you!"

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 minutes ago

If I met Trump, I'd tell him to go to jail

[–] blattrules@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

“Quiet piggy! Now leave me alone while I eat my filet o’ fish, quarter pounder, Big Mac and fries.”

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

Mmm, that reminds me, I haven't had lunch yet oink oink

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 53 points 6 hours ago

Unforgivable

I've been there for a long, long time.

[–] Ethel@lemmy.world 48 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

I can't figure out the reason why he chose "piggy" as the insult. The reporter is quite thin, and not loud or obnoxious. Projecting, maybe?

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 37 points 5 hours ago

Always projecting

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 11 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

No, I think his mind is perpetually stuck in the late 70's and 80's. Right around the time when the Muppet Show was big. So he's really saying she is annoying like Miss Piggy.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 hours ago

I refuse to believe he ever watched the Muppet Show. It was far too intelligent and cultured to keep his attention.

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 31 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

You know someone called him that like 5 hours before he used it.

My guess is he was talking to bubba and spoke out of turn.

[–] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 2 points 2 hours ago

For me personally it wasn't the name calling that irked me. Trump is a crass piece of shit and honestly I expect nothing less from his behavior. What's really irritating me is him and all the other Maga circus freaks aggressivly pointing their fingers in people's faces. It's such a small, "white man" form of micro aggression that aims to make the target feel inferior. And for some fucking reason it works psychologically because whenever I see one of them do it I immediately want to start throwing hands.

[–] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago
[–] Binturong@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I think it's the principle that he's a fat, bald, smelly failure slinging lukewarm insults at people better than himself that people are tired of. If someone called him out on camera, even in tepid, plain insults that are objectively provable, he might just expire from the shift in blood pressure.

[–] DaMummy@lemmy.world 22 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

The walls are closing in. This is the beginning of the end. It's the worst thing he's ever done.... At that exact moment.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] bumblefumble@mander.xyz 4 points 1 hour ago

This is over 9 years ago btw.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 15 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I was thinking wild animal that has been cornered and is very scared

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

well dementia's a bitch

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

A person with honour and civility would have stood up for her. Everyone is too worried about their job money.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Shit do be like that

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Meh. The maga husbands will keep voting for him, because dumb, and the maga wives will follow their husbands, because conservative values and all that.

[–] hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

Well, and the fear their husband will abuse them if they find out how they voted...

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

and the maga wives will follow their husbands, because conservative values and all that.

also dumb

[–] ohellidk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 hours ago

The one who looks like, acts like, and smells like a piggy is calling the reporter a piggy.... Ironic!

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago

It should end him.