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Mary Trump Says Escalating Attacks on Women Reporters Show a Rattled President

The president's niece, a clinical psychologist, voiced the assessment on her vodcast after fresh insults toward Bloomberg and New York Times reporters.

Overview

  • Mary Trump says the degrading remarks toward women covering the White House have grown more frequent and reflect a rattled president.
  • On recent occasions he told Bloomberg reporter Catherine Lucey "Quiet, piggy" and labeled New York Times reporter Katie Rogers "ugly" after coverage of his workload.
  • She argued he now feels more comfortable making such attacks in public, calling them part of a broader pattern of bigotry.
  • The comments came on a late-November episode of her vodcast, Mary Trump Live, where she summarized the trend and its political signals.
  • She warned that his outbursts can backfire, citing the Streisand effect of drawing more attention to reporting he dislikes.