President Donald Trump is once again under fire for his treatment of women — this time from his own family.
Mary Trump, the president’s outspoken niece and one of his most relentless critics, blasted her uncle as “a despicable misogynist” after he snapped at a female reporter aboard Air Force One, calling her “piggy” when she pressed him on the Jeffrey Epstein files.
“Donald is a lifelong, hardcore misogynist,” Mary Trump said in a video posted to X late Monday. “He doesn’t like women who ask him difficult questions — and this actually happened yesterday.”
The viral clip she shared shows the president pointing and waving his hand at Bloomberg White House correspondent Catherine Lucey, who can be heard asking, “If there’s nothing incriminating in the files, sir, why not—” before being cut off by Trump’s angry retort: “Quiet! Quiet, piggy!”
Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist and author of Too Much and Never Enough, didn’t hold back. “That was wildly inappropriate and despicable, but par for the course,” she said. “I’d say the only pig in this scenario is Donald — but that’s unfair to actual pigs, who are intelligent, affectionate creatures. Donald is just a vile and corrupt criminal who, unlike pigs, has nothing of value to contribute to the world.”
The president’s “piggy” insult sparked outrage across the media landscape. CNN’s Jake Tapper called it “beyond the pale,” while former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson said, “We fought this battle decades ago — a sitting president shouldn’t talk to women like that.”
But the White House brushed off the backlash. “The reporter behaved in an inappropriate and unprofessional way toward her colleagues on the plane,” a senior official told The Daily Beast. “If you’re going to give it, you have to be able to take it.”
That defense drew even more criticism online. “This isn’t a schoolyard spat — it’s the president of the United States demeaning a woman for asking a question,” said MSNBC host Joy Reid. “And his staff is doubling down.”
The exchange comes as pressure mounts on the administration to release Department of Justice records related to Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who died in federal custody in 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking minors.
Trump’s history with Epstein stretches back decades. The two were photographed together at Mar-a-Lago numerous times in the late 1990s and early 2000s, before their friendship reportedly soured. In 2002, Trump famously told New York Magazine, “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He likes beautiful women as much as I do — many of them on the younger side.”
Mary Trump told The Daily Beast this week that she was “haunted” by seeing Epstein at one of her uncle’s weddings. “There were always whispers about him,” she said. “And Donald was never far behind.”
It’s not the first time President Trump has used the word “pig” to demean a woman. During his 2016 campaign, former Miss Universe Alicia Machado said Trump mocked her weight and repeatedly called her “Miss Piggy” after she gained a few pounds. “He’d say, ‘Hello, Miss Piggy,’ right to my face,” she recalled in a 2016 interview.
Trump later doubled down, calling Machado “the worst Miss Universe ever.”
Mary Trump says that behavior never changed. “He humiliates women because he’s terrified of them,” she said Tuesday. “It’s all projection. The more cornered he feels, the more cruel he gets.”
The estrangement between Mary Trump and her uncle has only deepened since she published her best-selling exposé about the Trump family in 2020. She has since used her platform to highlight what she calls “the psychological rot” at the core of her uncle’s leadership.
“Donald’s presidency is a mirror of his childhood — chaos, cruelty, and zero accountability,” she said during a recent interview on MSNBC. “Every outburst tells us more about his fears than his strength.”
Still, the president appears unfazed by his niece’s criticism. When asked Tuesday if he had any response to Mary Trump’s comments, he smirked and said only, “Who?”
For Mary Trump, the insult wasn’t just about one word — it was about a lifetime of behavior. “This is who he’s always been,” she said. “It’s not just despicable — it’s dangerous. Because every time he gets away with it, it tells women everywhere that cruelty from men in power is just part of the job.”
Source: The Daily Beast, Bloomberg, CNN, MSNBC, New York Magazine
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