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

Donald Trump has attacked a female journalist as “ugly, both inside and out,” less than two weeks after referring to another reporter as “Piggy” during an exchange aboard Air Force One.

On Wednesday, Nov. 26, the 79-year-old president used his Truth Social platform to criticize The New York Times and White House correspondent Katie Rogers.

Trump appeared to be reacting to a story Rogers worked on that suggested he was confronting the “realities of aging in office,” noting that he has taken fewer domestic trips during his current term than he did in his first.

The article also mentioned a widely shared clip in which Trump appeared to fall asleep during an official event, a claim he has publicly rejected.

In response, Trump unloaded on the outlet, writing, “The Creeps at the Failing New York Times are at it again.”

He then singled out Rogers, who co-wrote the piece with 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 insisted that he won a “landslide” victory in the 2024 presidential election, claiming he carried “all Seven Swing States, the Popular Vote, and the Electoral College by a lot.”

Offering his own assessment of his performance in office, Trump wrote, “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, branding the Times article a “hit piece” and calling the paper an “ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE.”

Despite having recently acknowledged that his approval rating had dropped to its lowest point of his second term, Trump incorrectly asserted that he now has his “highest Poll Numbers, ever,” and suggested they will “only go up” due to his efforts.

“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 defended the paper’s coverage 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.”

The White House also weighed in. “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,” spokesperson Abigail Jackson said in a statement.

Trump’s broadside against Rogers follows a tense encounter on Nov. 14 with Bloomberg White House correspondent Catherine Lucey aboard Air Force One, during which he referred to her as “Piggy.”

When Lucey pressed him with a follow-up question about Jeffrey Epstein and the release of Epstein-related files, Trump cut her off, saying, “Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.”

The White House later defended the remark, saying in a statement, “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 continued.

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

“Look, the president is very frank & honest with everyone in this room,” she told reporters. “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.”

She added that Trump’s direct style is, in her view, more respectful than that of his predecessor. “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 said. “I think everyone in this room should appreciate the frankness and the openness that you get from President Trump on a near-daily basis.”