President Donald Trump has been on a tear the previous two weeks with vicious assaults on the individuals who get below his pores and skin most: journalists.
Whereas Trump has lengthy had a fraught relationship with the press, his affronts these days have skewed extremely private and degrading towards feminine journalists, for whom he often reserves his most below-the-belt insults.
His Wednesday morning screed took goal at New York Instances reporter Katie Rogers, one in all two journalists who labored on a Tuesday story concerning the president’s well being, getting older and decreased public appearances. Trump slammed her as “ugly.”
“Katie Rogers, who is assigned to write only bad things about me, is a third rate reporter who is ugly, both inside and out,” Trump wrote in his 300-plus-word rant on Fact Social.
Notably, Trump mentioned nothing in his submit concerning the Instances’ Dylan Freedman, who co-bylined with Rogers and contributed to the story by analyzing Trump’s schedules and social media posts.
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The most recent assault was coming off the heels of Trump telling Bloomberg reporter Catherine Lucey, a veteran White Home correspondent, to cease asking him questions on Jeffrey Epstein with two outrageous phrases heard around the world: “Quiet, piggy.” Trump wagged his finger at Lucey as he spoke whereas different journalists on Air Power One appeared on.
Even White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt struggled to place a spin on that one, telling reporters final week that at the very least Trump is “frank and open and honest to your faces rather than hiding behind your backs.”
Trump lashed out at ABC Information’ Mary Bruce final week, too, when she requested him how he may reconcile having Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, sit down with him within the Oval Workplace regardless that his personal intelligence brokers discovered that the prince had ordered the violent killing of a Washington Submit columnist in Istanbul in 2018.
“You don’t have to embarrass our guest by asking a question like that,” Trump scolded Bruce as he sat alongside Mohammed. He later known as her questioning “horrible, insubordinate” and “terrible.”
Trump escalated his rhetoric towards Bruce when she requested why he wouldn’t launch the Epstein recordsdata on his personal.
“It’s not the question that I mind; it’s your attitude,” Trump fired at Bruce.
“I think you are a terrible reporter. It’s the way you ask these questions,” he mentioned, including, “You’re a terrible person and a terrible reporter.”
