Dear editor, “Quiet. Quiet piggy,” said President Trump to Catherine Lucey aboard Air Force One during the November 14 press conference.
Ms. Lucey, the Bloomberg News correspondent for the White House press corps, had asked a follow-up question about the Epstein files.
Apparently Trump believes that female journalists deserve no respect. And not one male member of the White House press corps attempted to defend Ms. Lucey.
No major media covered this story until there was public backlash a few days later.
Republican and Democrat members of Congress later called the remark “disgusting and degrading.”
This administration’s Spin Doctors have been hard at work trying to diminish the fallout.
“The reporter behaved in an inappropriate and unprofessional way toward her colleagues on the plane,” said the White House press secretary who later told members of the media that they should be grateful that Trump freely states his opinions.
“Quiet piggy” has become an online meme. Critics of the president are shouting the slur whenever the president appears at public functions according to social media.
There are 44,000 to 45,000 professional journalists in the U.S., according to the most recent U.S. Department of Labor data.
Currently 45% to 53% of these journalists are women.
Rosanne Boyett Retired journalist