Overview
- During a press scrum in the Oval Office on Friday, President Trump told a female reporter, “You have to be nice and easy,” and labeled her “very aggressive.”
- The reporter was identified in coverage as NBC News correspondent Yamiche Alcindor, though the identification was not officially confirmed.
- The exchange occurred after a bill-signing honoring the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, when Alcindor asked about photos released Friday from Epstein-related records.
- Trump said he had not seen the images and argued that many people had photos with Jeffrey Epstein, adding that the pictures were “no big deal.”
- The White House defended the president’s comments as bluntness unrelated to gender, while recent reports catalog similar put-downs of female journalists, including calling one “quiet, piggy.”