Overview
- Video posted by the White House showed Trump telling Bloomberg’s Catherine Lucey, “Quiet, quiet, piggy,” on Air Force One after she asked why Epstein files were not being released.
- A White House official defended Trump’s remark by alleging the reporter behaved in an inappropriate and unprofessional way toward colleagues on the plane.
- Hours after the video spread, Trump rebuked ABC’s Mary Bruce in the Oval Office during Mohammed bin Salman’s visit, calling her “a terrible person and a terrible reporter” and suggesting ABC’s broadcast license should be examined.
- Congress voted overwhelmingly to direct the Justice Department to make Epstein-related records public, intensifying pressure on the administration over timing, redactions, and scope.
- Journalists and commentators, including CNN’s Jake Tapper and Gretchen Carlson, condemned the “piggy” comment as part of a pattern of gendered insults toward women in the press.