Pearls before swine: Trump pigs out on epithets

President Trump escalated tensions with the press, directing a crude insult at a female journalist and threatening to revoke a network's license. These confrontations, including calling a reporter "piggy" and a network "fake news," align with his documented pattern of using gendered slurs to deflect from tough questions and undermine female critics.

Pearls before swine: Trump pigs out on epithets
President Trump escalated tensions with the press, directing a crude insult at a female journalist and threatening to revoke a network's license. These confrontations, including calling a reporter "piggy" and a network "fake news," align with his documented pattern of using gendered slurs to deflect from tough questions and undermine female critics.