“QUIET PIGGY” – AN ESSAY ON TRUMP’S TREATMENT OF WOMEN REPORTERS
If You’re Okay With This, We’re Not Okay
Let me show you what the President of the United States said to professional journalists in less than a month:
December 8, 2024: Called Rachel Scott of ABC News “obnoxious and terrible”
December 6, 2024: Called Caitlyn Collins of CNN “stupid and nasty”
November 27, 2024: Asked reporter Nancy Cordes “Are you stupid?”
November 26, 2024: Called Katie Rogers of the New York Times “ugly”
November 18, 2024: Called Nancy Bruce of ABC “terrible and insubordinate”
November 14, 2024: Told a Bloomberg reporter “Quiet Piggy”
Quiet. Piggy.
Not “that’s a stupid question.” Not “I disagree with your premise.” Not even “you’re wrong.”
Piggy.
Like she’s livestock. Like she’s something to be fed and fattened and kept quiet until it’s time for slaughter.
This Isn’t About Politics
I don’t care if you voted for Trump. I don’t care if you think his economic policies are sound or if you hate Democrats or if you’re convinced the border is a crisis. This isn’t about any of that.
This is about basic human decency. This is about how you allow a man—any man, but especially the President of the United States—to speak to women who are doing their jobs.
These aren’t activists. They’re not protesters. They’re credentialed journalists asking questions at press conferences. Doing exactly what the First Amendment says they’re supposed to do.
And the most powerful man in the world is calling them pigs.
To Every Man Still Supporting Trump:
Let me ask you something.
Would you be okay with your boss calling your wife “stupid and nasty” at her job?
Would you stand by while your daughter’s teacher called her “ugly” in front of the whole class?
Would you shrug it off if someone told your mother to be a “quiet piggy”?
Then why the fuck are you okay with the President doing it?
Don’t tell me “he fights back.” Fighting back would be disputing their facts or challenging their reporting. Calling them pigs is what cowards do when they can’t answer the question.
Don’t tell me “he’s just joking.” There’s nothing funny about systematically dehumanizing women for doing their jobs. If your buddy at the bar talked like this, you’d either call him out or you’re the same kind of asshole he is.
Don’t tell me “they deserve it for attacking him.” Nobody deserves to be called a pig for asking a question. Not even if the question is hostile. Not even if you think the media is biased. Not ever.
This Is a Pattern
This isn’t new. This is Trump’s entire history with women:
- “Grab ’em by the pussy” (his words, not mine)
- Calling Rosie O’Donnell a “fat pig”
- Mocking Carly Fiorina’s face
- “Blood coming out of her wherever” about Megyn Kelly
- Decades of ratings women’s appearances on scales of 1-10
- The Access Hollywood tape
- The E. Jean Carroll verdict (sexual abuse and defamation—$83 million in damages)
- Stormy Daniels hush money payments while his wife was pregnant
And now, as President, he’s calling female reporters pigs.
If you’re a man and you’re still defending this, I need you to understand something: You’re telling every woman in your life that this behavior is acceptable. Your wife. Your daughter. Your mother. Your coworkers.
You’re telling them that power and success mean a man gets to treat them like livestock.
You’re telling them to be quiet piggies.
This Isn’t Locker Room Talk
This is the President of the United States. At official press conferences. On the record. With cameras rolling.
This is how he treats women when he KNOWS the whole world is watching.
Imagine how he treats them when the cameras are off.
To Women Still Supporting Trump:
I honestly don’t understand you.
I get voting for policy. I get being pro-life or pro-gun or anti-tax or whatever your issue is.
But how do you watch him call woman after woman a pig and think “Yeah, that’s my guy”?
Do you think you’re different? Do you think you’re special? Do you think he respects you more than he respects Rachel Scott or Caitlyn Collins or Katie Rogers?
He doesn’t.
The second you ask a question he doesn’t like or challenge him in any way, you’re just another piggy who needs to be quiet.
This Is Who He Is
I’ve been watching Donald Trump since the 1970s. I went to high school in Manhattan when he was a tabloid fixture. I went to Rutgers when he was bankrupting casinos and stiffing contractors.
This is not new behavior. This IS the behavior.
The cruelty. The misogyny. The dehumanization. It’s not a bug. It’s the entire operating system.
And every time you make excuses for it, every time you laugh it off, every time you say “that’s just Trump being Trump,” you’re complicit.
You’re telling your daughter it’s okay for powerful men to treat women like pigs.
You’re telling your wife to stay quiet and know her place.
You’re telling every woman who’s ever been talked down to, dismissed, degraded, or dehumanized at work that she should just take it. Because that’s what powerful men do.
I Can’t Abide This
I gave people a pass for voting for Trump in 2016. I even understood 2024—people wanted change, they were frustrated with the economy, whatever.
But if you’re still supporting him after watching him systematically degrade women like this, we’re done.
I don’t care how long we’ve been friends. I don’t care if we grew up together or went to school together or worked together.
If you think calling women pigs is acceptable presidential behavior, we don’t share the same values. We don’t live in the same America. And we’re not friends anymore.
It’s that simple.
What You Can Do
If this pisses you off the way it should:
- Call it out. Every time. Don’t let your Trump-supporting friends laugh it off.
- Support the journalists. They’re doing their jobs under conditions no reporter should have to tolerate.
- Talk to the women in your life. Ask them how they feel watching the President call female professionals pigs. Really listen.
- Vote accordingly. In 2026. In 2028. In every local election in between. Tell your representatives this isn’t okay.
- Raise your sons better. Make damn sure they understand that treating women like this—ever, under any circumstances—is unacceptable.
If you’re okay with “Quiet Piggy,” we’re not okay.
And we never will be.
— Robbie Blue
Deep State Club