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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.

It's not just the right, but our modern society broadly cares far FAR more about aesthetics than substance. It's always been this way, but the information age/short-attention-span era has directed a very bright spotlight on the problem.

This means though, that superficial, "dumb" insults and personal attacks are going to get about a thousand times more media attention and engagement than the most controversial policy debate or legal disputes.

(This comment is aimed directly at any possible DNC aids who might be scrolling Lemmy looking for things they need to tell the shriveled husks they represent.)

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

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

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

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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"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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Unforgivable

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

It all comes full circle it seems https://knowyourmeme.com/news/donald-trump-launches-conservative-twitter-alternative-truth-social-donaldjtrump-immediately-tweets-pig-poop-balls

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