{"id":66657,"date":"2025-11-23T16:46:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T16:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/66657\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T16:46:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T16:46:29","slug":"trumps-decades-long-pattern-of-attacking-women-crossed-a-new-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/66657\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s decades-long pattern of attacking women crossed a new line"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When the president of the United States pointed angrily at a reporter and called her \u201cpiggy\u201d<\/a> last week, I wish she had gone full Muppet: \u201cWho? Moi?\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, Bloomberg White House reporter Catherine Lucey<\/a> did nothing of the sort. She was a consummate professional and did not respond to President Trump\u2019s gratuitous insult after she asked why he had not already released the Epstein files if he has nothing to hide. But Trump\u2019s comment to her aboard Air Force One was so juvenile, so absurd and so beneath the dignity of his office that it seemed like he was parodying himself.<\/p>\n

Except he wasn\u2019t. This is exactly who he is.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s been publicly denigrating women<\/a> for years. Especially journalists.<\/p>\n

In 2011, he sent New York Times columnist Gail Collins a copy of her own column, in which she described him as a \u201cfinancially embattled thousandaire.\u201d He\u2019d circled her picture and scrawled \u201cThe Face of a Dog!\u201d<\/a> across it. <\/p>\n

In 2015, during his first debate with Republican presidential hopefuls, moderator Megyn Kelly, then of Fox News, opened by quoting<\/a> some of the misogynistic insults he\u2019d lobbed at women over the years, including \u201cfat pigs,\u201d \u201cdogs,\u201d \u201cslobs\u201d and \u201cdisgusting animals.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou once told a contestant on the \u2018The Celebrity Apprentice\u2019 it would be a pretty picture to see her on her knees. Does that sound to you like the temperament of a man we should elect as president?\u201d Kelly asked. Trump sputtered, then issued a veiled threat: \u201cI\u2019ve been very nice to you, although I could probably maybe not be, based on the way you have treated me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The next day, as you may recall, Trump insinuated<\/a> that Kelly had been on her period, with \u201cblood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2016, Trump memorably called his Democratic presidential rival, Hillary Clinton, \u201csuch a nasty woman,\u201d which became an instant badge of honor for progressive American women.<\/p>\n

A few days after Piggygate<\/a>, Trump welcomed Saudi Arabian dictator Mohammed bin Salman to the Oval Office and put on another sexist display as he lauded the crown prince\u2019s human rights record and touted the administration\u2019s deal selling <\/a>the Saudis our most sophisticated fighter jets, and the Saudi\u2019s vow to invest a trillion dollars in the U.S. <\/p>\n

Did Trump really think the press corps would be so besotted by his dealmaking that they would fail to ask the prince about the grotesque 2018 murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, top of mind for any American journalist covering the visit?<\/p>\n

Kudos to Mary Bruce, ABC News chief White House correspondent, for raising it,<\/a> and for alluding to Saudi involvement in the attack that inflicted our country\u2019s worst-ever incident of mass murder. (In August, a federal judge cleared<\/a> the way for a lawsuit filed by 9\/11 families against Saudi Arabia to proceed to trial.)<\/p>\n

\u201cYour royal highness,\u201d said Bruce, \u201cthe U.S. intelligence concluded that you orchestrated the brutal murder of a journalist; 9\/11 families are furious that you are here in the Oval Office. Why should Americans trust you?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial,\u201d Trump said of Khashoggi<\/a>. \u201cA lot of people didn\u2019t like the gentleman you\u2019re talking about. Whether you like him, or didn\u2019t like him, things happen.\u201d (Imagine if a Democratic elected official had been similarly dismissive <\/a>about the murder of right-wing provocateur Charlie Kirk.)<\/p>\n

But of course, Trump wasn\u2019t finished. He also attacked Bruce personally<\/a>, saying she\u2019d asked a \u201chorrible, insubordinate and just a terrible question.\u201d Only a man who surrounds himself with boot-licking sycophants and sucks up to royalty would consider a journalist\u2019s pointed question an insult. How dare a peon take on a prince?<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t have to embarrass our guest by asking a question like that,\u201d Trump said. The prince, however, did not appear to be the least bit embarrassed. He denied responsibility for Khashoggi\u2019s murder and dismemberment, and called it \u201ca huge mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is pathetic, and revealing, how Trump loses it when women challenge him.<\/p>\n

He dismissed the writer E. Jean Carroll, who has prevailed in sexual abuse and defamation lawsuits against him, as a \u201cnut job,\u201d a \u201cwhack job,\u201d a \u201cliar,\u201d a \u201cfraud\u201d and \u2014 as if this is the ultimate insult \u2014 \u201cnot my type.\u201d<\/a> <\/p>\n

Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, until recently one of the president\u2019s most fervent supporters, has been outspoken about Republican responsibility for skyrocketing Obamacare premiums, and was one of three Republican congresswomen to support releasing the Epstein files before the rest of the House, then the Senate came around last week<\/a>.She is now a \u201ctraitor\u201d in Trump\u2019s view,<\/a> an insult he tosses around with little regard for the death threats it inspires<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He did it again on Thursday, after six Democratic members of Congress, all of whom are either former military or intelligence officers, released a video reminding American soldiers<\/a> that they are duty bound not to follow illegal orders.<\/p>\n

Trump said the Congress members were guilty of \u201cseditious behavior at the highest level\u201d<\/a> \u201cpunishable by death,\u201d<\/a> and reposted a Truth Social comment <\/a>calling for them to be hanged.<\/p>\n

I can understand Trump\u2019s increasing fits of pique. He\u2019s had a terrible few weeks: His party was trounced<\/a> in the off-year elections, the Senate refused his demand<\/a> to end the filibuster to bring a quick end to the government shutdown. After calling the demand for the Epstein files a Democratic \u201choax,\u201d he caved<\/a> and signed the bill ordering the Justice Department to release them. The economy continues to falter<\/a>, despite his lies to the contrary.<\/p>\n

Expecting a thin-skinned man like Trump to be respectful to those who ply him with questions about his failures \u2014 especially when they are women \u2014 is a recipe for disappointment. <\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t think it was possible, but this time, Trump has hit a new low.<\/p>\n

Bluesky: @rabcarian<\/a>
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