In a Truth Social post, the president lashed out at journalist Katie Rogers after an article questioned whether he was slowing down
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Donald Trump lashed out on Wednesday against a
New York Times reporter, calling her “ugly inside and out” in his latest personal insult against female members of the media after last week calling another “piggy”.
In a
Truth Social post, Trump criticized the newspaper for an article suggesting he was running low on energy in his 80th year, insisting he had “never worked so hard in my life”.
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Trump specifically targeted one of the authors. “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 wrote.
Trump, who has a history of making extremely personal attacks on female journalists, referred to a Bloomberg News correspondent as a “piggy” during a
clash onboard Air Force One less than two weeks ago.
When Catherine Lucey, Bloomberg’s White House correspondent, started to ask why Trump was behaving the way he was regarding the Epstein files “if there’s nothing incriminating in the files”, Trump pointed at her and said: “Quiet. Quiet, piggy.”
Last week, after facing questioning from Mary Bruce, an ABC News White House correspondent about the murder of
Jamal Khashoggi and the Epstein scandal, Trump responded “It’s not the question that I mind. It’s your attitude. I think you are a terrible reporter – it’s the way you ask these questions,” adding “You’re a terrible person and a terrible reporter.”
Trump has a long history of reserving his harshest criticisms for women,
calling female journalists
“nasty” and referencing menstruation
to dismiss questions from Megyn Kelly.
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