Trump Calls Female Reporter ‘Ugly, Both Inside and Out’ Less Than 2 Weeks After ‘Piggy’ Remark on Air Force One

Donald Trump has launched a new attack on a member of the White House press corps, calling a New York Times reporter “ugly, both inside and out” less than two weeks after he referred to another journalist as “Piggy” while aboard Air Force One.

The 79-year-old president posted the comment on his Truth Social account on Wednesday, Nov. 26, while criticizing The New York Times and White House correspondent Katie Rogers.

In the post, Trump appeared to respond to a story Rogers co-wrote that suggested he was confronting the “realities of aging in office,” noting that he has been taking fewer domestic trips than during his first term.

The piece also mentioned a widely shared clip in which Trump seemed to nod off during an official event — something he has publicly denied.

Blasting the article in an extended tirade, Trump wrote, “The Creeps at the Failing New York Times are at it again.”

He then singled out Rogers, who wrote the article alongside fellow Times reporter Dylan Freedman, saying, “The writer of the story, Katie Rogers, who is assigned to write only bad things about me, is a third rate reporter who is ugly, both inside and out.”

In the same post, Trump again falsely claimed that he won the 2024 presidential election in overwhelming fashion, insisting he secured “all Seven Swing States, the Popular Vote, and the Electoral College by a lot.”

Offering his own assessment of his second term, Trump continued, “I settled 8 Wars, have 48 New Stock Market Highs, our Economy is Great, and our Country is RESPECTED AGAIN all over the World, respected like never before. The last Administration had the Highest Inflation in history – I have already brought that down to normal, and prices, including groceries, are coming down.”

“To do this requires a lot of Work and Energy, and I have never worked so hard in my life,” he added, dismissing the Times article as a “hit piece” and labeling the paper an “ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE.”

Despite recently acknowledging that his approval rating had fallen to its lowest point of his second term, Trump incorrectly claimed in the post that he now has his “highest Poll Numbers, ever,” predicting they would “only go up” because of his performance in office.

“There will be a day when I run low on Energy, it happens to everyone, but with a PERFECT PHYSICAL EXAM AND A COMPREHENSIVE COGNITIVE TEST (‘That was aced’) JUST RECENTLY TAKEN, it certainly is not now!” he wrote.

A spokesperson for The New York Times responded in a statement, saying, “The Times’s reporting is accurate and built on first hand reporting of the facts. Name-calling and personal insults don’t change that, nor will our journalists hesitate to cover this administration in the face of intimidation tactics like this. Expert and thorough reporters like Katie Rogers exemplify how an independent and free press helps the American people better understand their government and its leaders.”

White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson also issued a statement defending Trump’s rhetoric toward the media.

“President Trump has never been politically correct, never holds back, and in large part, the American people re-elected him for his transparency. This has nothing to do with gender – it has everything to do with the fact that the President’s and the public’s trust in the media is at all time lows,” Jackson said.

Trump’s remarks about Rogers follow a tense exchange with Bloomberg White House correspondent Catherine Lucey on Nov. 14 during a gaggle aboard Air Force One.

When Lucey asked about Jeffrey Epstein and the release of the Epstein files, Trump cut off a follow-up question and snapped, “Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.”

The White House later defended the comment in a statement, saying, “This reporter behaved in an inappropriate and unprofessional way towards her colleagues on the plane.”

“If you’re going to give it, you have to be able to take,” the statement added.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt reiterated that stance at a press briefing on Thursday, Nov. 20.

“Look, the president is very frank & honest with everyone in this room,” she said. “You’ve all seen it yourselves. You’ve all experienced it yourselves. And I think it’s one of the many reasons the American people reelected this president, because of his frankness.”

“He calls out fake news when he sees it,” Leavitt continued. “He gets frustrated with reporters when you lie about him, when you spread fake news about him and his administration.”

“And so 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, where you had a president who would lie to your face and then didn’t speak to you for weeks,” she added. “I think everyone in this room should appreciate the frankness and the openness that you get from President Trump on a near-daily basis.”