{"id":393168,"date":"2025-11-20T22:05:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T22:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/393168\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T22:05:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T22:05:15","slug":"press-secretary-defends-trumps-name-calling-of-a-reporter-as-piggy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/393168\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Secretary Defends Trump&#8217;s Name Calling Of A Reporter As &#8220;Piggy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWhite House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt defended <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" id=\"auto-tag_donald-trump\" data-tag=\"donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> for calling a reporter \u201cpiggy,\u201d as she tried to cast the president\u2019s outburst last week in a positive light.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOn Air Force One on Friday, Trump scolded <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bloomberg\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bloomberg\" data-tag=\"bloomberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloomberg<\/a>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/catherine-lucey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_catherine-lucey\" data-tag=\"catherine-lucey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catherine Lucey<\/a> as she tried to ask a follow up question about the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jeffrey-epstein\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jeffrey-epstein\" data-tag=\"jeffrey-epstein\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> files. \u201cQuiet, piggy,\u201d Trump could be heard saying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAt the White House press briefing on Thursday, one reporter asked Leavitt, \u201cWhat did the president mean when he called the reporter piggy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLeavitt responded, \u201cLook, the president is very frank and honest with everyone in this room\u2026You have all experienced it yourself and I think it is one of the many reasons the American people reelected this president, because of his frankness. And he calls out fake news when he sees it. He gets frustrated with reporters when you lie about him, when you spread fake news about him and his administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tShe then argued that Trump is \u201cthe most transparent president in history,\u201d pointing to his accessibility in the Oval Office nearly every day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cSo I think the president being frank and open and honest to your faces rather than hiding behind your backs is frankly a lot more respectful than what you saw in the last administration,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLucey had not been sparring with Trump but appeared to be attempting to ask, if there was nothing incriminating in the files, why doesn\u2019t he order their release himself, rather than have Congress vote on it?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTrump also lashed out at ABC News correspondent Mary Bruce on Tuesday during his Oval Office meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Bruce had asked the crown pricne about the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 and later asked Trump about the Epstein files.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt defended Donald Trump for calling a reporter \u201cpiggy,\u201d as she tried to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":393169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[3638,185261,69,36555,15053,50,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-393168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-bloomberg","10":"tag-catherine-lucey","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-electionline","13":"tag-jeffrey-epstein","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115584298193467085","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}