# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/41 "2025-11-19T08:27:55Z")
By this standard, he’s had dementia for the past 20 years. ---
**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, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/42 "2025-11-19T08:35:31Z")
I’m not so sure he wasn’t born with it. Maybe his Mother took Tylenol or something. Did they have Tylenol in the olden days? ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/43 "2025-11-19T11:43:17Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > He pointed his finger and said “Quiet, piggie” after she asked an Epstein files question. If nothing else, it’d be a great slogan for opponents to use against him. Or any of his acolytes. ---
**Author:** ![2\_More\_Bits](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2_more_bits/32/4148_2.png) [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/44 "2025-11-19T12:27:10Z")
Forevermore, when I hear Trump speak, I’ll be thinking “quiet, Piggy.” ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/45 "2025-11-19T13:02:43Z")
I feel Piggy was one of the heroes of “Lord of the Flies” ( [Lord of the Flies - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies) ) [Muppets reference]Also I am half in love with Miss Piggy. The other half is for Janice[/Muppets] ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/46 "2025-11-19T13:18:44Z")
Weird comment from the person who most resembles a pig. How much respectful does he think the reporters covering him should be? Whenever they scan the blank faces of the press after trump or Leavitt says something fucked up, there is never even widened eyes or quick glances at colleagues. They rarely stand up for each other. Fear of losing access is their only concern. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/47 "2025-11-19T13:19:25Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > …it is refreshing to see them being disrespected. Where else have I heard trump’s behavior described as ‘refreshing’? Oh yeah, [Caroline Leavitt flailing once again to defend him.](https://youtu.be/4a3UMFX-dNk) This is a pretty common practice among trump apologists, I’ve noticed-- no matter how awfully he treats people, no matter how bizarre his statements or actions, or how crazy are the AI videos he shares, his supporters defend him as being ‘refreshing’. He’s his ‘authentic self’, he’s ‘transparent and open’. No. He’s not. He’s a cruel, lying, greedy, power-mad, malignantly narcissistic, abusive demented moron who is a huge embarrassment to this country. > [@Jackmannii](#): > > _Sometimes a person with dementia can lose their inhibitions and may behave in ways that others find embarrassing. This can include:_ > > - _being rude_ > - _saying things that aren’t appropriate (for example, that someone is overweight)_ > - _talking to strangers_ > - _undressing in public_ > - _apparent loss of sexual inhibition (for example, touching themselves inappropriately in public)._ I’m keeping my fingers crossed for numbers 4 and 5 to manifest during the SOTU address or some other public forum. Although, as I’ve said before, he could drop his pants, take a crap and fling feces at members of Congress, and trump apologists would _ **still** _ say “he was being his ‘authentic self’, he’s ‘transparent and open’. It’s ‘refreshing’”. 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/48 "2025-11-19T13:21:21Z")
The prince seems rather smug and arrogant, but what else could he be, I suppose. As for the despicable trump, well I can’t say anything else because this isn’t in the pit. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/49 "2025-11-19T13:51:57Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I’m disappointed the other journalists didn’t scream with distaste at his remark. This. 100 times this. We all don’t have to be Cops/Firemen/EMTs/Search and Rescue. But we all have a duty to speak up for our fellow man or woman. All of us. Every time. Every one of us. That especially includes the media/reporters. And when he doesn’t answer a question, the next media person should repeat the question. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/50 "2025-11-19T14:01:38Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Weird comment from the person who most resembles a pig. _“It’s almost impossible to believe he exists. It’s as if we took everything that was bad about America, scraped it up off the floor, wrapped it all up in an old hot dog skin, and then taught it to make noises with its face.”_ –Anthony Citrano ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/51 "2025-11-19T14:23:11Z")
> [@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. When it’s fucking Trump of all people, we can retaliate in kind. I love Newsom’s Twitter accounts: > > > > > Nick Adams @NickAdamsinUSA > > > > My favorite is his reply to “If President Trump called you right now, what would you say to him?” being “Quiet, Piggy”. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/52 "2025-11-19T14:30:01Z")
This has not yet blown over, in spite of the Epstein votes and the visit by the Saudi crown prince. I heard the Piggy remark referenced again this morning on the Today Show. Hopefully it will stay in the headlines for a while, and maybe every woman who voted for Trump will hear it. Probably won’t make a difference, but one can hope. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/53 "2025-11-19T14:34:07Z")
If I hadn’t cut every Trump voter out of my life, I would say “quiet, piggy” anytime any of them said anything to me. I kind of hope I meet one soon. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/54 "2025-11-19T14:35:52Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > 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. If a sitting congressperson could be so moved to disgust and anger by an Obama speech that they violate all norms of decorum and screech out “you lie”, and the American people and specifically the electorate of the Great State of South Carolina could find it in their heart to forgive him and continue to make him congressperson, I think they would have forgiven a reporter for an outburst of outrage over this incident. Just kidding, they’d eat that reporter alive. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/55 "2025-11-19T14:36:37Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > 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… Let’s not forget his treason. That’s a big one. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/56 "2025-11-19T14:37:13Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > I would say “quiet, piggy” anytime any of them said anything to me. I am close friends with a couple of Trump voters. (We don’t talk politics anymore, for obvious reasons.) I plan to use that phrase whenever the opportunity arises. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/57 "2025-11-19T14:38:17Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > 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 can quite easily imagine groups of people who’d feel that way. People who wish they could tell the women in their own life to “Quiet, Piggy”, for one. And I’m sure there are other groups. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/58 "2025-11-19T15:10:24Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > > [@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… Will Trump now say that to excuse Charlie Kirk’ killer? 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/59 "2025-11-19T15:14:10Z")
Reminds me of Morton Downey Jr.’s “Zip it!” Thirty years from trash TV to trash chief executive. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness-quiet-piggy-remark-and-responses-to-said-remark/1024971/60 "2025-11-19T15:30:55Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Hope the Saudi prince brought Donald some nice baubles. He brought [Cristiano Ronaldo](https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/cristiano-ronaldo-s-white-house-moment-with-barron-trump-leaves-donald-trump-bragging/ar-AA1QJn1R). Both trumps (the apple and the horse) were very pleased and bragged about his presence. [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=2) [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=4)