On Thursday (November 20), White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was questioned about President Donald Trump scolding Bloomberg New reporter Catherine Lucey when she requested him in regards to the Jeffrey Epstein recordsdata final week whereas on Air Drive One. “Quiet, piggy!” he replied to Lucey.

“What did the president imply when he known as the reporter piggy?”, a reporter requested Leavitt. She replied, “Look, the president could be very frank and trustworthy with everybody on this room…You might have all skilled it your self and I feel it is among the many causes the American folks reelected this president, due to his frankness. And he calls out pretend information when he sees it. He will get pissed off with reporters if you lie about him, if you unfold pretend information about him and his administration.”

Leavitt continued, “The president being frank and open and trustworthy to your faces, quite than hiding behind your backs, is, frankly, much more respectful than what you noticed within the final administration.”

With the final line, Leavitt appeared to recommend that former President Joe Biden’s administration wasn’t respectful of the press. However Trump’s feedback to Lucey appears to be a part of a rising sample the place he’s comfy being impolite to members of the press, particularly in the event that they’re ladies.

Trump grew to become upset with ABC Information reporter Mary Bruce on Tuesday throughout an Oval Workplace assembly with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman. It was in response to her asking in regards to the homicide of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, with a followup query in regards to the Epstein recordsdata.

In September, NBC Information White Home Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor requested Trump “Are you making an attempt to go to warfare with Chicago?” as he was heading to New York Metropolis for the U.S. Open. He known as her query “pretend information”, and when Alcindor tried to observe up, he snapped “Be quiet, hear! You don’t hear! You by no means hear. That’s why you’re second-rate.”