# How can we take this latest Trump nastiness \["Quiet, Piggy" remark, and responses to said remark\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [November 18, 2025, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971 "2025-11-18T23:50:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/21 "2025-11-19T02:41:07Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > He called a female reporter “Piggie” on Airforce 1. > > He pointed his finger and said “Quiet, piggie” after she asked an Epstein files question. > > Come on. This is not right. But it pales in comparison to the murders he’s currently carrying out at sea. Why worry about insults when people are dying seems to be the issue now, not that anyone’s actually able to stop him from doing anything apparently. ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/22 "2025-11-19T02:47:34Z")
Not judging this case because I don’t know the details involved, but if a reporter has acted in unethical reporting practices, it is refreshing to see them being disrespected. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/23 "2025-11-19T02:49:19Z")
She had the temerity to ask him about the Epstein Files case (last Friday). A subject Trump is pretty sore about. So, if you think that asking Trump a question he doesn’t like to hear is an “unethical reporting practice”, I don’t know what else to say. But it’s interesting to see that you support his comment here. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/24 "2025-11-19T02:56:19Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > Not judging this case because I don’t know the details involved, but if a reporter has acted in unethical reporting practices, it is refreshing to see them being disrespected. Just curious, what type of detail would move you to judge this, one way or the other? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/25 "2025-11-19T03:03:09Z")
Everything about Trump is disgusting beyond expectations. You could be pissed at his inhumane ICE directives, his inhumane treatment of alleged drug boats, his inhumane treatment of women in every respect, his inhumane treatment of the poor in this country, his selfish lack of respect for anything… Lots of reasons to hate this piece of shit. May our hate bond us against this piece of shit, and all, each and every individual piece of shit who willingly granted him this power. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/26 "2025-11-19T03:13:54Z")
That has got to be the most lopsidedly judgemental “non-judging" I have seen in decades. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/27 "2025-11-19T03:15:20Z")
It’s fucking depressing. Like, this is not some big line in the sand on the road to dictatorship, it’s just a really horrible nasty utterance, that only a terrible person would say. It’s an exemplification of how the POTUS can do and say whatever the fuck he wants and there will be no comeuppance. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/28 "2025-11-19T03:34:09Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > it is refreshing to see them being disrespected. By calling them Piggy? I guess you and I have different expectations, but I would hope (in vain unfortunately) that my president would have more decorum than a 3rd grader. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/29 "2025-11-19T03:39:42Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > Not judging this case because I don’t know the details involved Or you could have simply read the article quoted above, with descriptions and link to the actual video. Funny how you didn’t even try. > **[Trump faces criticism for referring to female Bloomberg reporter as ‘piggy’](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/18/trump-calls-reporter-piggy-bloomberg)** > > Critics accuse the US president of trying to ‘shut women journalists up’ with ‘demeaning language’ ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/30 "2025-11-19T03:41:44Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Lets face it. Trump could have called her every 4 letter word in the book, and punched her in the face on live TV and it would not have made one iota of difference to his approval rating. Oh, it would have made a difference; it would have probably gone up. He was elected in part as an act of hatred towards women, after all. Twice. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/31 "2025-11-19T03:43:15Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > I would hope (in vain unfortunately) that my president would have more decorum than a 3rd grader. Hard to do when said president has no more intelligence than a third grader, and no self-awareness whatsoever. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/32 "2025-11-19T03:48:52Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > Not judging this case because I don’t know the details involved, but if a reporter has acted in unethical reporting practices, it is refreshing to see them being disrespected. If your standard for deserving disrespect is unethical practices, then surely you approve of Trump being called every filthy name ever invented. Right? ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/33 "2025-11-19T04:26:13Z")
From former US Atty Joyce Vance’s newsletter this evening: > Portland has reclaimed the frog as a symbol of its resistance to Trump’s efforts to militarize the city. Perhaps women should claim the glamorous, sassy Muppet Miss Piggy, a known diva with a fierce karate chop, as their own symbol. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/34 "2025-11-19T04:55:10Z")
Well, I’m disappointed, not in you @HoneyBadgerDC , I expected no more. I’m disappointed the other journalists didn’t scream with distaste at his remark. Maybe if these people would speak up he’d stop. I know they want the opportunity be on the plane and in the briefing room. Maybe if they give him no quarter. Refuse to cover him. Quit, please quit spewing his name over every news cast, maybe just Maybe he wouldn’t be in the Whitehouse at all. Eh, water under the bridge. I know. We gotta start somewhere. I hate to watch the news because these things bother me so much. It’s unfathomable that adults do this name calling in public, are recorded and then revel in it. Sickening. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/35 "2025-11-19T04:58:59Z")
> [@Jackmannii quoting Politico](#): > > …referencing Khashoggi, the president also seemed to offer an explanation for his murder: “a lot of people didn’t like that gentleman,” he said. So if a lot of people don’t like someone it’s okay to kill 'em? Hmmm… ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/36 "2025-11-19T05:03:30Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > Not judging this case because I don’t know the details involved, but if a reporter has acted in unethical reporting practices, it is refreshing to see them being disrespected.. Respectfully, if you don’t know the details involved, then it would behoove you to find out the details before offering comments. Also, is seems curious that you (not knowing anything) would offer up a completely unsupported hypothetical about this reporter acting in an unethical manner. This seems to have been completely made up out of whole cloth, and even as a hypothetical is really grasping at straws. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/37 "2025-11-19T05:04:21Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I’m disappointed the other journalists didn’t scream with distaste at his remark. Maybe if these people would speak up he’d stop. LOL, in what fantasy world would that work? These are professional journalists. They don’t “scream with distaste”. That’s not how a person who is supposed to report without bias would act. They are grown-ups. Instead, they report on him and let his shameless behavior speak for itself. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/38 "2025-11-19T05:16:14Z")
Yeah. That’s cromulent. I suppose you’re right. But, I so wanted someone to call him out. There must be one equally rude journalist. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/39 "2025-11-19T05:19:19Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > > [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > > > Not judging this case because I don’t know the details involved, but if a reporter has acted in unethical reporting practices, it is refreshing to see them being disrespected.. > > Respectfully, if you don’t know the details involved, then it would behoove you to find out the details before offering comments. Also, it seems very weird that anybody would think that snarling _“Quiet, piggy_” is a “refreshing” response to a reporter **asking a question of a public figure who’s holding a press opportunity specifically to answer questions from reporters**. I mean, what kind of “unethical reporting practices” does @HoneyBadgerDC imagine a reporter in that situation would be engaging in, where such a response could possibly be appropriate? Making oink-oink noises whenever the President tries to answer a question? Loudly slurping a milkshake during the Q&A? As it happens, of course, the reporter was simply doing her job by asking a question about current events, namely: _“If there’s nothing incriminating in the [Epstein] files, sir, why not—"_ and presumably she was going to ask _“release them?”_ if Trump hadn’t interrupted her. I remain baffled why @HoneyBadgerDC would even hypothetically consider it “refreshing” to hear a reporter called “piggy” by the President of the United States just for asking a politely worded question. Even if it was a question that the said President didn’t particularly want to hear. Aren’t competent politicians supposed to be able to field unwanted questions from reporters **without** hurling angry insults at them? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/40 "2025-11-19T05:23:24Z")
Exactly^^ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971.md?page=3)